Autor Frank Dikotter

Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term.A…

A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . .. Combined with this linguistic skill, Dik tter has a writer's gift EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great…