From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez : intellectuals and a century of political hero worship
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From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez : intellectuals and a century of political hero worship
Cambridge University Press, 2016
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction: intellectuals and politics
- Mussolini, fascism and intellectuals
- Hitler, nazism and intellectuals
- Stalin, Rakosi, Soviet communism and intellectuals
- Castro, Che Guevara, and their western admirers
- Western intellectuals, Mao's China and Cambodia under Pol Pot
- Other dictators and their admirers in more recent times
- Conclusions: the personal and the political
