TY - BOOK ID - 58326237 TI - How to be a dictator : the cult of personality in the twentieth century PY - 2019 SN - 9781408891629 9781408891612 9781408891605 1408891603 PB - London Bloomsbury DB - UniCat KW - Dictatuur KW - Politiek KW - Internationale politiek KW - Politieke geschiedenis KW - Political sociology KW - Political systems KW - Dictatorship KW - Dictators KW - S06/0255 KW - S06/0432 KW - Absolutism KW - Autocracy KW - Tyranny KW - Authoritarianism KW - Despotism KW - Totalitarianism KW - Tyrants KW - Heads of state KW - History KW - China: Politics and government--Political theory: modern (and/or under Western influence) KW - China: Politics and government--About works and thought of Mao Zedong; Mao Cult KW - E-books KW - Economische politiek KW - Maatschappij KW - Film UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:58326237 AB - Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom. In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikoetter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today's world leaders? This timely study, told with great narrative verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself. It places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very heart of tyranny. Bron : htpp://www.acco.be ER -