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Twilight of Democracy - Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By Anne Applebaum

Book information

Publisher
Doubleday
Year
2020
ISBN
9780385545808, 9780385545815
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1339760 bytes)
Pages
\155
Time added
2024-12-18 13:44:18

Description

From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. Elegantly written and urgently argued, Twilight of Democracy is a brilliant dissection of a world-shaking shift and a stirring glimpse of the road back to democratic values.

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