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From Mein Kampf to Maos Little Red Book, dictators have often sought to expound their ideology in print, while some have even turned their hand to creative writing. Starting with the Big Five of 20th-century tyranny - Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and Mao - this study also examines the memoirs of Enver Hoxha, the poetry of Serb warlords, the historical fiction of Saddam Hussein and the speeches of Fidel Castro to provide a chilling insight into the despotic mindset.Literacy, long upheld as a standard bearer for progress, is not always a force for good. Had Stalins mother never sent him to the seminary he never would have learned to read and so never discovered the works of Marx or Lenin. Instead he probably would have ended up like his father a cobbler by trade and a drunk by vocation. Throughout the twentieth century dictators subjected captive audiences to soul-killing prose on a massive scale. They published theoretical works, spiritual manifestos, poetry collections, memoirs and even romance novels. Armed with nothing but a darkly humorous wit, Daniel Kalder journeys long into the literary night to discover what their tomes reveal about the dictatorial soul. From the stagger

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Author

Daniel Kalder

Publisher

Oneworld Publications

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786070593

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, History

Updated

2026-03-24