How to Be a Dictator

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Chapters & Sections (39)

0:00 Joseph Kay McLaughlin Lecture Series chapter 3
0:00 Joseph Kay McLaughlin Lecture Series
2:16 Historians Praise Decoders Timely Portrait of Dictatorship
3:33 Joseph Kay McLaughlin Lecture on Totalitarianism
5:54 Dictators and Cult of Personality chapter 4
5:54 Ruthless Dictators Throughout History Compared
7:48 Dictators' Tactics and Personality Cults
9:20 Dictators and Public Support Illusion
11:16 Dictators' Weakness and Cult of Personality
13:10 Dictators' Image Cultivation Techniques Compared chapter 2
13:10 Dictators' Image Cultivation Techniques
15:34 Propaganda Techniques of Hitler and Mao
18:07 Mao's Cult of Personality and China's Chaos chapter 3
18:07 Cult of Personality in Communist Leaders
20:07 Mao's Death and Public Display of Grief
21:51 Cult of Personality and Obedience
23:32 Dictators Cultivate Personality Cults for Power chapter 3
23:32 Cult of Personality in Dictatorial Regimes
25:30 Lenin and Duvalier Cults in History
27:04 Dictators' Imperial Traditions and Loyalty
28:56 Dictators and Ideology: A Complex Relationship chapter 3
28:56 Dictators and Ideology in Regimes
30:35 Marxism Misused for Power and Control
32:05 Characteristics of Dictators and Their Downfall
34:04 Dictatorship and Cult of Personality chapter 2
34:04 Dictators and Cult of Personality
36:33 Dictatorship and the Abuse of Power
38:57 Stalin's Cult of Personality and Dictatorship chapter 4
38:57 Stalin's Cult of Personality and Control
40:29 Cult of Personality and Dictatorship
42:08 Dictators and Mass Murderers Double Standard
44:22 Comparing Dictators and Double Standards
46:23 Dictators and Monarchs Cults of Personality chapter 6
46:23 Distinguishing Dictators from Monarchs with Personality Cults
48:02 Dictators and Cult of Personality
49:55 Dictators' Study of Power and Leadership
52:32 Dictators and Cults of Personality
54:05 Comparing Democratic Leaders to Dictators
56:02 Historical Context of Nationalism and Anti-Semitism

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