Read this book to learn more about the internal workings of one of the world’s most devastating dictatorships.
Saddam's Iraq: Revolution Or Reaction?
Bengio indicates the bismallah had not been used by the RCC prior to the war ( Saddam's Word , 188 ) . Although its use certainly increased during the war , the expression was employed in Ba'thist Iraq before then .
In addition to calling into question the common story of modern Iraqi politics, State of Repression offers a new explanation of why and how dictators repress their people in ways that can inadvertently strengthen regime opponents.
This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein.
A unique and revealing portrait of Saddam Hussein's Iraq which was every bit as authoritarian and brutal as Stalin's Russia or Mao's China.
Through a grand strategy of “Ba’thification,” Faust argues that Hussein mixed classic totalitarian means with distinctly Iraqi methods to transform state, social, and cultural institutions into Ba’thist entities, and the public and ...
An account of the forces-historical, religious, ethnic, and political-that produced Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.
In the book at hand, Victoria Fontan - a professor of peace and conflict studies who lived, worked and researched in Iraq - shares pointed insights into the emotions of Iraq's people, and specifically how democratization has in that country ...
This edition, updated in 1998, has a substantial introduction focusing on the changes in Hussein's regime since the Gulf War.