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Authoritarian States: Books from the LIbrary
Modern world history : for SEG syllabus B
Includes: Anti-Semitism; Bay of Pigs; Bolsheviks; Communism;
Czechoslovakia; Depression 1929-1933; Adolph Hitler; Hiroshima; Hungary;
League of Nations; Lenin; Nuclear weapons; Racism; Reparations (after the
World Wars); Schutzstaffel (SS); Stalin; Trotsky; Truman; USSR; Potsdam;
Treaty of Versailles; Vietnam; Women in the wars.
ISBN: 9780435308476Publication Date: 2000
Tyrants : history's 100 most evil despots & dictators by
The Ron Vickers Political and History Collection
(Donated by Year 9 Baird)
Includes: Alexander the Great; Caligula; Agrippina; Nero; Attila the Hun;
Genghis Khan; Tamerlane; Vlad the Impaler; Ivan the Terrible; Catherine the
Great; Robespierre; Napoleon Bonaparte; Lenin; Juan Peron; Josef Stalin;
Benito Mussolini; Adolph Hitler; Trujillo; Mao Tse Tung; Ayatollah Khomeini;
Sukarno; Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) President of Haiti;
Enver Hoxha (Albania); Kwame Nkrumah; Kim Il Sung (North Korea); Augusto
Pinochet; Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines); Jean Bedel Bokassa (Central
African Republic); Idi Amin (Uganda); Fidel Castro (Cuba); Pol Pot
(Cambodia); Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopia); Saddam Hussein; Slobodan
Milosevic; Muammar alGaddafi; Samuel Doe and others.
ISBN: 9781841932118Publication Date: 2004
Fascism by
The books in this series will focus on the major types of government found in the world today. They will explain, in terms that are clear and understandable to young adults, not only how the major forms of government function but also their philosophical underpinnings. The books will illustrate how ideas about good governance have evolved over the course of history.
ISBN: 9781422221396Publication Date: 2012-01-01
North Korea by
Each nation of the world has its own unique and compelling story. Greenhaven Press's History of Nations series tells these stories through the use of primary and secondary sources. Each anthology traces the history of a separate country from its earliest origins through all its birth pangs to its current status in the world. Invasions, revolutions, wars, and other social and political upheavals come to life in these fascinating volumes. The reader will witness the rise and fall of empires, the flowering of advanced cultures, and the havoc wreaked by natural and man-made cataclysms. Each volume begins with an in-depth introduction that supplies essential context. A substantial bibliography offers avenues for further research. A detailed chronology, an annotated table of contents, and a thorough index facilitate easy reference. With its broad scope and essential features, Greenhaven Press's History of Nations series is a useful resource for students of international history. Book jacket.
ISBN: 9780737722956Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Authoritarian and Single Party States: Mao
- China History Podcasts various podcasts looking at different aspects of Chinese history
- Cultural Revolution Cultural Revolution, in full Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Chinese (Pinyin) Wuchanjieji Wenhua Dageming or (Wade-Giles romanization) Wu-ch’an Chieh-chi Wen-hua Ta Ke-ming, upheaval launched by Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong during his last decade in power (1966–76) to renew the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. Fearing that China would develop along the lines of the Soviet model and concerned about his own place in history, Mao threw China’s cities into turmoil in a monumental effort to reverse the historic processes underway.
- Overview of the Chinese Cultural Revolution In August 1966, Mao Zedong called for the start of a Cultural Revolution at the Plenum of the Communist Central Committee. He urged the creation of corps of "Red Guards" to punish party officials and any other persons who showed bourgeois tendencies.
- Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution: history versus myth As the Mao era, and in particular the Cultural Revolution fade in memory, its history has fallen out of focus and has been infused with myth. Drawing on his recent book, China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed, Andrew Walder will take up two related questions. First, what were Mao's intentions and what were the actual outcomes of his radical initiatives? Second, why did these outcomes occur?
Authoritarian and Single Party States: Hitler
Adolf Hitler
- Biography of Adolf Hitler, Leader of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was the leader of Germany during the Third Reich (1933–1945). He was the primary instigator of both the Second World War in Europe and the mass execution of millions of people deemed to be "enemies," or inferior to the Aryan ideal.
- Hitler's Leadership Style How good was Hitler as a military commander? Was he, as his former subordinates claimed after World War Two ended, a meddlesome amateur who kept them from conducting the war properly? What were his strengths and weaknesses, his goals and methods? The answers to these questions reveal a man who was indeed responsible for Germany's downfall, though not entirely in the way that his generals claimed.
- The curious history of ‘Mein Kampf’ in France Seventy years after the death of Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” is in the public domain and free to be republished. The history of its English version is relatively well-known, thanks to historians James and Patience Barnes. Its history in French is not. While French journalist Antoine Vitkine wrote a 2009 global history of “Mein Kampf” and two French lawyers and a historian recently shed light on the French-language editions of “Mein Kampf,” neither book has been translated into English.
Authoritarian States
Authoritarianism, principle of blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. In government, authoritarianism denotes any political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people. Authoritarian leaders often exercise power arbitrarily and without regard to existing bodies of law, and they usually cannot be replaced by citizens choosing freely among various competitors in elections. The freedom to create opposition political parties or other alternative political groupings with which to compete for power with the ruling group is either limited or nonexistent in authoritarian regimes.
The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. (n.d.). Authoritarianism. Retrieved May 05, 2017, from
https://www.britannica.com/topic/authoritarianism
What Makes a Ruler a Dictator? Definition and List of Dictators
A dictator is a political leader who rules over a country with absolute and unlimited power. Countries ruled by dictators are called dictatorships.
Authoritarian States: Media
The Nazis would later try to rewrite history to say that Hitler became Chancellor simply because it was his destiny, but in reality, Hitler had been helped by economic circumstance and the support and miscalculation of others.