The Future of Dictatorship: A Discussion with Sergei Guriev
New Books in World Affairs
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The Politics of Assassination
Stalin would have denied, wouldn't he, that he had these huge numbers of people killed on his orders. The forced confessions were public and their role was actually to instill fear on potential opponents. Now Qadaf is an interest in case because he started when spin dictatorships were common. And then he lasted for almost 40 years to reach the era of spin dictators. So he became a dinosaur without actually noticing that.
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