Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our AgeFree Press, 1994 - 496 Examines such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Bokassa, Ne Win, Trujillo, Duvalier, and Ceaucescu, discussing why new ideological tyrants thrive despite the decline of communism. |
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... China's traumatic confrontation with modern Europe and Japan , its combination of traditional Chinese cul- ture with new Western scientism , and Mao's personal ideas all played a role in propelling China in a different direction from ...
... China's traumatic confrontation with modern Europe and Japan , its combination of traditional Chinese cul- ture with new Western scientism , and Mao's personal ideas all played a role in propelling China in a different direction from ...
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... Chinese market open to the very profitable opium trade from British India . The Chinese wanted to stop the spread of the debilitat- ing addiction encouraged by the trade , and the British did not want to lose the revenues from their ...
... Chinese market open to the very profitable opium trade from British India . The Chinese wanted to stop the spread of the debilitat- ing addiction encouraged by the trade , and the British did not want to lose the revenues from their ...
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... Chinese learning on a rational , sci- entific basis . But , like many other Chinese intellectuals , he believed that in order to reform China a fundamental change in human behavior was necessary . The old autocracy was based on a ...
... Chinese learning on a rational , sci- entific basis . But , like many other Chinese intellectuals , he believed that in order to reform China a fundamental change in human behavior was necessary . The old autocracy was based on a ...
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Moderation Abandoned | 25 |
In the Beginning Was the Word | 71 |
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