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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"A nonfiction account of some of the deadliest dictators in modern history"--
What makes a country fall to a dictator? How to authoritarian leaders acquire their powers? Davis profiles five of the most notoriously ruthless dictators in history. The examines their personal lives and historical periods, and shows how these factors shaped the leaders they'd become. -- adapted from jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945-from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political and ideological nature. Arguing that the tragedies...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it's particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite. But one night, her uncle disappears without a trace....
5) Dictatorship
Author
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
"Discusses dictatorships as a political system, and details the history of dictatorships throughout the world"--Provided by publisher.
6) Dictatorship
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Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces a dictatorship, a form of government in which complete power of a country rests in the hands of one leader.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note." --
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography--and fate--introduce...
10) Dictatorship
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Examines the history of dictatorship as a form of government, in which an individual or a small group holds power without legal constraints, and examines the diverse forms of dictatorship.
11) Eyes open
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Sónia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma's curiosity about her father's past,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In Germany 1923...historian Volker Ullrich draws on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and other sources from the time to present a captivating new history of those explosive twelve months. The crisis began when the French invaded the Ruhr Valley in January to force Germany to pay the reparations it owed under the Treaty of Versailles, which had ended the Great War. For years, German leaders had embraced inflationary policies to finance the costs...
Author
Series
Butterfly Hill volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After fourteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns to Valparaiso from Maine, she decides to uncover the truth about what happened in Butterfly Hill during the dictatorship and find her missing friend, Lucila.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Through decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in Communist Party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that...
Author
Pub. Date
©2019.
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Description
"Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands."--Provided by publisher
"It is November 25, 1960, and three sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state...