Tag: Dictatorship

Free Download Alex Fernandes, "The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal’s Dictatorship Fell"
English | ISBN: 0861547543 | 2024 | 400 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
A new history of the Portugal’s Carnation Revolution on its fiftieth anniversary

Free Download Democracy and Dictatorship in Ghana and Tanzania By Robert Pinkney
1997 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0333631757 | PDF | 15 MB
An examination of the evolution of democracy in Ghana and Tanzania, following long periods of single-party and military rule, and looks at the current and potential obstacles to democratic development. After discussing the nature of democracy, the author goes on to consider the conditions which have made the emergence of multi-party politics possible in Ghana and Tanzania. The book looks at the balance of forces between governments and campaigners for pluralist democracy, and at the outcomes that emerged.

Free Download Joseph Scalice, "The Drama of Dictatorship: Martial Law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines"
English | ISBN: 1501770470 | 2023 | 384 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Drama of Dictatorship uncovers the role played by rival Communist parties in the conflict that culminated in Ferdinand Marcos’s declaration of martial law in 1972. Using the voluminous radical literature of the period, Joseph Scalice reveals how two parties, the PKP and the CPP, torn apart by the Sino-Soviet dispute, subordinated the explosive mass struggles of the time behind rival elite conspirators. The PKP backed Marcos and the CPP, his bourgeois opponents. The absence of an independent mass movement in defense of democracy made dictatorship possible.

Free Download Ian Kershaw, "The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation Ed 4"
English | ISBN: 0340760281 | 2000 | 304 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This widely-used text on the Nazi regime explores the complex issues historians face when they interpret the Third Reich. Kershaw expertly synthesizes data and evaluates complex historiography looking at the major themes and debates among scholars about Nazism. Drawing on the findings of a wide range of research, particularly the work of German scholars which has not been widely available in English editions, he uncovers interpretational problems, outlines the approaches taken by various historians, and provides clear evaluations of their positions. This edition reflects current concerns and fresh research and contains substantial revisions to the chapter on "Hitler and the Jews" and an updated survey of recent historical work including Goldhagen’s controversial book,

Free Download Jennifer Harford Vargas, "Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel "
English | ISBN: 0190642858 | 2017 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o fiction, which the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os’ central contributions to the literary history of the dictatorship novel by analyzing how Latina/o writers with national origin roots in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America imaginatively represent authoritarianism. The novels collectively generate what Harford Vargas terms a "Latina/o counter-dictatorial imaginary" that positions authoritarianism on a continuum of domination alongside imperialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism, and border militarization. Focusing on novels by writers such as Junot Díaz, Héctor Tobar, Cristina García, Salvador Plascencia,

Free Download Images of Dictatorship: Stalin in Literature By Rosalind Marsh
2017 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 1138703656 | PDF | 15 MB
Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison between the depiction of Hitler in German literature and Stalin in Russian literature. It explores the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigr Russian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It examines in detail two important novels which had hitherto received little critical attention: the revised (1978) version of Sozhenitsyn’s The First Circle and Anatoly Rybakov’s Children of the Arbat. This book will be of interest to students of Soviet/Russian literature, history and politics and those intsted in the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th Century.