Product Description: "An examination of the dictatorial form of government, including its basic ideologies and structure, its best-known leaders throughout history, and countries affected by its system of rule"--

Product Description: A national constitution or other statute typically specifies restrictions on executive power, often including a limit to the number of terms the chief executive may hold office. In recent decades, however, some presidents of newly established democracies have extended their tenure by various semilegal means, thereby raising the specter—and in some cases creating the reality—of dictatorship...read more

Argues that the social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945, are inextricably linked. This book makes use of Russian and German sources to explain how their pursuit of utopian ideals led only to dystopian nightmare. It also shows how the rivalry between Stalin and Hitler led to a war of annihilation and genocide.