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Dictadores

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 918

A ningún dictador le bastan el miedo y la violencia para gobernar: estas estrategias pueden resultar indispensables para alcanzar el poder e incluso para mantenerlo durante un tiempo, pero no suelen ser efectivas a largo plazo. La paradoja del dictador moderno es que debe crear la ilusión del respaldo popular, pues sólo un tirano cuyo gobierno es capaz de inspirar idolatría en el pueblo conseguirá perpetuarse. En «Dictadores», Frank Dikötter examina ocho de los cultos a la personalidad más efectivos del siglo xx: aquellos que, mediante estrategias que van desde los desfiles militares coreografiados al detalle hasta el establecimiento de una férrea censura, fueron plenamente conscientes de la imagen que querían proyectar y fomentar. Este penetrante y oportuno ensayo analiza cómo se funda, afianza y perpetúa el culto a la personalidad, ayudándonos a identificarlo en algunos líderes mundiales de la actualidad y situándolo donde pertenece, en el corazón de la tiranía. «Una obra interesante que muestra la vulnerabilidad y manejabilidad de la mentalidad popular». Jorge Vilches, La Razón «El lector español podrá comprobar que el interés del libro aumenta según...

La tragedia de la liberación

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 1047

En 1949, tras una sangrienta guerra civil, Mao Zedong izó la bandera roja en la Ciudad Prohibida de Pekín. Pero la victoria del Partido Comunista de China sobre las fuerzas de Chiang Kai-shek no trajo paz, libertad y justicia, sino la instauración del sistema del terror propio de los regímenes totalitarios y la violencia sistemática que causó la muerte de cinco millones de personas. A la luz de los datos descubiertos tras la reciente apertura de los archivos gubernamentales de la República Popular, Frank Dikötter construye una estremecedora crónica de la revolución china en la que los testimonios de los civiles y el análisis de las brutales políticas del gobierno de Mao se conjugan para ofrecernos un revelador documento. Este fascinante libro—segundo volumen de la «trilogía del pueblo», que incluye asimismo «La gran hambruna en la China de Mao» y «La Revolución Cultural», también publicadas en Acantilado—da voz a las numerosísimas víctimas del comunismo en China silenciadas durante décadas y arroja luz sobre los orígenes de una de las potencias mundiales del siglo XXI. «Un libro imprescindible, apasionante. Es una crónica precisa y concisa de la...

An Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine

Autor: John Wagner Givens

Número de Páginas: 94

"The power of Frank Dikötter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted 'Great Leap Forwar©d'; lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao's fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million Chinese lives). It stems from the exceptional reasoning skills that allowed Dikötter to turn years of researching in obscure Chinese archives into a compelling narrative of disaster, and above all to link two subjects that had been treated as distinct by most of his predecessors: the extent of the crisis in the countryside, and the actions (hence the responsibility) of the senior Chinese leadership. In Dikötter's view, ultimate responsibility for the catastrophe lies at the door of Mao Zedong himself; the Chairman conceived and ordered the policies that led to the famine, and he did nothing to reverse them or limit the damage that was being wrought when evidence for their disastrous impact reached him. Dikötter's ability to persuade his readers of the fundamental truth of these arguments--despite his admission that his access to sources was necessarily limited and incomplete--together with the clear structure of his...

La Revolución Cultural

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 1259

Tras la catástrofe económica y humana del Gran Salto Adelante, un Mao envejecido diseñó un ambicioso plan para afianzar su liderazgo y su legado: la llamada Revolución Cultural, cuyo objetivo declarado era la purga definitiva de los burgueses infiltrados en el gobierno y la sociedad para minar el comunismo. No obstante, el plan servía al dictador para desembarazarse de veteranos miembros del Partido en la cúpula, a los que sometió a humillaciones públicas, encarcelamientos y torturas. El país no tardó en sumirse en una febril persecución de los sospechosos en nombre de la pureza revolucionaria, un caos que, inadvertidamente, sentaba las bases del fin del maoísmo. En esta magnífica conclusión a la aclamada «trilogía del pueblo», Dikötter indaga una vez más en documentos previamente secretos para dar voz a los protagonistas de la época más tumultuosa de la China comunista y reexaminar con rigor su estremecedora historia. «Tras el fallido Gran Salto Adelante, Mao se propuso con la Revolución Cultural erigirse en el histórico eje en torno al que iba a girar todo el universo socialista tras la traición soviética. La Revolución Cultural no causó tantos...

The Cultural Revolution

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 433

The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. Frank Dikötter uses this...

Mao's Great Famine

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 449

An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China.

Red Dawn Over China

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 304

From renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter – 'the historian of China' (Spectator) – a commanding new history of China's path to Communism, brought to the people at the barrel of a gun

The Discourse of Race in Modern China

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 240

First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the country's devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment abroad, hoping to find the keys to wealth and power on the distant shores of Europe. Instead, they discovered the notion of 'race', and used new evolutionary theories from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer to present a universe red in tooth and claw in which 'yellows' competed with 'whites' in a deadly struggle for survival. After the fall of the empire in 1911, prominent politicians and writers in republican China continued to measure, classify and rank people from around the world according to their supposed biological features, all in the name of science. Racial thinking remains popular in the People's Republic of China, as serologists, geneticists and anthropometrists continue to interpret human variation in terms of 'race'. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include a...

How to Be a Dictator

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 331

'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom. In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today's world leaders?...

La gran hambruna en la China de Mao

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 1805

Entre 1958 y 1962 cuarenta y cinco millones de chinos perecieron a causa de los trabajos forzados, la violencia y la hambruna a los que fueron sometidos por el gobierno de Mao Zedong. Obsesionado con la empresa frenética del Gran Salto Adelante, su iniciativa, destinada a superar el modelo económico occidental en menos de quince años, provocó una de las mayores catástrofes humanas de la historia. Gracias a una exhaustiva labor de investigación de los archivos provinciales y municipales chinos recientemente abiertos, Dikötter da voz a las víctimas del régimen y demuestra por primera vez que el implacable destino de las personas de a pie no fue un accidente, sino el resultado directo, y en buena medida calculado, de las decisiones en las altas esferas del poder. «La gran hambruna en la China de Mao» abre así una nueva brecha en el muro que aún separa a la actual China, heredera del maoísmo instaurado en 1949, del resto del mundo. Premio Samuel Johnson de ensayo 2011 «El estudio más minucioso y reciente sobre la gran hambruna. Un trabajo demoledor». Ángel Vivas, El Mundo «Dikötter documenta como nadie lo había hecho hasta ahora la etapa en que Mao hizo el primer...

Comment devenir dictateur

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 342

Le Culte de la personnalité au XX e siècle. Le culte de la personnalité chez les dictateurs a longtemps été considéré comme une dérive mégalomaniaque empreinte de folie et de paranoïa. Pour l'historien Frank Dikötter, la mise en scène de sa propre personne est au contraire indispensable au maintien d'un tyran au pouvoir. Si la terreur et la répression permettent la mise au pas d'un pays, il est nécessaire de contrôler les esprits et de rendre impossible toute rébellion. À travers de nombreux exemples, il décrypte comment huit dictateurs du XXe siècle ont su créer l'illusion d'un soutien populaire et ont réussi à entraîner tout un peuple dans leur folie destructrice.

China After Mao

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 333

_______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history – but above all to China' Peter Frankopan, TLS 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today's China and what the Chinese Communist Party's choices mean for the rest of the world' New Statesman Books of the Year Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 _______________ From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao In China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an...

The Age of Openness

Autor: Frank Dikotter

Número de Páginas: 140

The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend towards openness. Frank Dikötter argues that the years from 1900 to 1949 were characterised at all levels of society by engagement with the world, and that the pursuit of openness was particularly evident in four areas: in governance and the advance of the rule of law and of newly acquired liberties; in freedom of movement in and out of the country; in open minds thriving on ideas from the humanities and sciences; and in open markets and sustained growth in the economy. Freedom of association, freedom to travel, freedom of religion, freedom to trade and relative freedom of speech wrought profound changes in the texture of everyday life. While globalisation itself was a vector of cultural diversification, pre-existing constellations of ideas, practices and institutions did not simply vanish on contact with the rest of the world, but on the contrary expanded even further, just as much as local industries diversified thanks to their...

Mao's Great Famine

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 450

An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011

The Tragedy of Liberation

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 401

The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum 'Essential reading for all who want to understand the darkness that lies at the heart of one of the world's most important revolutions' Guardian 'Dikötter performs here a tremendous service by making legible the hugely controversial origins of the present Chinese political order' Timothy Snyder In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.

La Chine après Mao

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 311

« Le but du Parti communiste chinois n’a jamais été de rejoindre la sphère démocratique, mais bien de lui résister, puis de la vaincre. » Depuis la mort de Mao, en 1976, la Chine a connu une ascension économique fulgurante. Contrairement à ce que les observateurs occidentaux ont pu croire, ce « miracle » ne s’est pas accompagné d’une démocratisation politique. De manière implacable, le Parti n’a cessé de s’enrichir et d’enraciner sa dictature, assurant le contrôle de ses populations et mettant au point l’un des systèmes de surveillance de masse les plus sophistiqués au monde. En se fondant sur des centaines de documents d’archives inédits – procès-verbaux secrets des réunions du Parti, archives locales ou rapports bancaires confidentiels –, Frank Dikötter analyse les politiques d’importations de technologies, la répression brutale des élans de liberté marqués par les événements de la place Tian’anmen en 1989, le profit que la Chine tire de la crise financière mondiale de 2008 ou encore ses stratégies bellicistes sur la scène internationale. Nous emmenant au coeur des villages les plus reculés comme dans les spectaculaires...

Dictators

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 304

A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom. In Dictators, Frank Dikötter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the...

Mao's Great Famine

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 420

Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. So opens Frank Dikotter's astonishing, riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era. Dikotter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of one of the most deadly mass killings of human history, as at least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death, but also the greatest demolition of real estate in human history, ...

Mao och den stora svälten

Autor: Frank Dikötter

Número de Páginas: 431

»Intressant och viktig läsning.«Helsingborgs Dagblad »Dikötters arbete inponerar både genom dess bredd och dess djup. Idag är det ett standardverk vars slutsatser utgör en given referenspunkt i forskningen om Det stora språnget och hela Maoepoken.« Tidskriften Axess »En tidigare icke skådad redovisning av de vederstyggliga, groteska, oerhörda missförhållandena under ”Det stora språnget”.« Gefle Dagblad »Har alla förutsättningar att bli ett standardverk om vad Maos ideologi och person betydde för det kinesiska folket … att boken är flerfaldigt internationellt belönad är inte förvånande.« Historielärarnas förening Vinnare av Samuel Johnson Prize för bästa fackbok 2011! Mellan 1959 och 1962 dog fyrtiofem miljoner kineser. De misshandlades, svalt eller arbetade till döds. Med Det stora språnget drev Mao Zedong sitt land till vanvettets rand när han på bara femton år ville komma i kapp den västerländska civilisationen på alla plan. Resultatet blev en av de största humanitära katastrofer världen skådat. Frank Dikötter har grävt djupt i de kinesiska arkiven och fått fram nytt och mycket skrämmande material. Han ger röst åt de döda...