Autocratic Rule and Centralization
1. 
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating — 89,921 ratings 
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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
by:
Ludwig von Mises
4.16 avg rating — 356 ratings 7. 
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
by:
Richard J. Evans
4.35 avg rating — 7,085 ratings 
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by:
Steven Levitsky
4.16 avg rating — 30,324 ratings 10. 
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
by:
Byung-Kook Kim
4.13 avg rating — 159 ratings 
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
by:
Nina Willner
4.37 avg rating — 12,282 ratings 10. 
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
by:
Bertram M. Gross
3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings 10. 
Prophets of Order: The Rise of the New Class, Technocracy and Socialism in America
by:
Donald Stabile
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 10. 
Revival of the West: Securing a Future for European People really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
by:
Ishay Landa
4.54 avg rating — 121 ratings 
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War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.46 avg rating — 236 ratings 21. 
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by:
Richard J. Evans
4.30 avg rating — 11,562 ratings 
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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
by:
Steven Lee Myers
4.07 avg rating — 5,471 ratings 
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Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
by:
Alexander Watson
4.36 avg rating — 958 ratings 
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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
by:
Jay Taylor
4.16 avg rating — 444 ratings 29. 
Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900
by:
R.J. Rummel
3.84 avg rating — 111 ratings 29. 
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
by:
Zephyr Teachout
3.86 avg rating — 549 ratings 29. 
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by:
J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
by:
Andrew Gordon
3.84 avg rating — 1,000 ratings 34. 
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
by:
Sheldon S. Wolin
4.17 avg rating — 962 ratings 34. 
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
by:
Anne Applebaum
4.08 avg rating — 7,066 ratings 
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Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point
by:
Gyan Prakash
3.88 avg rating — 180 ratings 
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.13 avg rating — 7,492 ratings 45. 
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
by:
Ben S. Bernanke
4.12 avg rating — 2,064 ratings 
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Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies?
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings 
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Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.55 avg rating — 58 ratings 
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Understanding Fascism: Writings on Caste, Class and the State
by:
K. Balagopal
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 60. 
The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
by:
Marcus Aurelius
4.28 avg rating — 320,746 ratings 60. 
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The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India
by:
Alpa Shah
4.52 avg rating — 96 ratings 64. 
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran 4.15 avg rating — 841 ratings
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Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
by:
Beng Huat Chua
4.21 avg rating — 135 ratings 
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic 4.27 avg rating — 3,206 ratings
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
by:
Arkady Ostrovsky
4.02 avg rating — 1,863 ratings 