authoritarianism

This slapstick postmodern tale is also a profound statement about dictatorship and peaceful revolution.

"A revelatory inner history of China during a moment of transformation"--Provided by publisher.

American psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argues that the modern world has created a predominant personality of detachment--a sort of societal pathology--and proposes measures for helping humankind hang onto morality and social responsibility.

This book looks at the ethics (the concept of right and wrong) of different political systems and discusses why governments succeed or fall and how they can be changed.

Compares political repression in three military regimes--Brazil, Chile, and Argentina--focusing on political trials and each regime's approach to the law.

Examines issues spanning 150 years in Russian and Soviet history, analyzing questions and presenting excerpts from sources on ideologies and regimes, political parties, repression and terror, agriculture and industry, the social classes, war, and other topics.

Presents alphabetized biographical profiles that provide basic information on over four hundred major European figures from 1600 to 1720, including those who had significant impact on intellectual and cultural activity of the era.

Explores how the United States attempts to control the political and economic problems of the world have failed and endangered the American people, and argues that in order to create a safer world for everyone the government must completely rethink its approach to rogue nations and governments.