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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states. Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege while different forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum argues...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Applebaum, a Pulitzer award winning author who has written about Soviet history before, presents a history of the Soviet expansion into Europe following World War II up to 1956. She focuses on Hungary, Poland, and East Germany. She explains how the USSR imported the Soviet system into occupied nations, how the Soviets controlled radio-broadcasting in satellite nations, how Soviets encouraged, and how civil society organizations and small businesses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Las democracias occidentales modernas estan bajo asedio y el auge del autoritarismo es una cuestion que deberia preocuparnos a todos. En El ocaso de la democracia, Anne Applebaum (premio Pulitzer y una de las primeras historiadoras que alerto de las peligrosas tendencias antidemocraticas en Occidente) expone de forma clara y concisa las trampas del nacionalismo y de la autocracia. En este extraordinario ensayo explica por que los sistemas con mensajes...
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