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Anonymous Sun Jun 25 14:18:21 2023 No.22188220 [Reply] [Original]

This semi-coup in Russia got me interested in reading more on how coups and dictatorships actually take power and hold on to it, and how they convert or pacify hostile elements. What are some good books for this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 14:19:08 2023 No.22188222 >>22188220 Cute cat

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 14:20:07 2023 No.22188225 >>22188222 thanks it was a stray

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 15:49:56 2023 No.22188583 File: 177 KB, 1353x2020, rules-for-dictators.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Picrel is the master work on the subject. There's even an 18-minute YouTube video that lays out the basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 15:52:22 2023 No.22188601 File: 86 KB, 662x1000, 41zpo63I22L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this is the one you want

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 15:55:41 2023 No.22188619 >>22188220 Start with Harmodius and Aristogeiton.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 16:46:51 2023 No.22188801 >>22188583 Isnt that mostly just pop literature? I'd like something more indepth. I could be wrong though, i never read it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 17:17:56 2023 No.22188891 >>22188220 so a russian president who won an election is a dictator but "king" charles is the vibrant leader of a multicultural democracy?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 17:25:31 2023 No.22188926 >>22188891 Im not making any judgments, it's just that this sparked my interest

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 17:30:43 2023 No.22188951 >>22188891 Voting is a farce and has been for a long time. King Charles has no real power; he's a figurehead, and if he chose to, he can dissolve Parliament, but that power is exercised only rarely.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 17:31:32 2023 No.22188954 >>22188220 18th brumaire

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 17:32:33 2023 No.22188957 >>22188801 Did you even watch the video before writing it off as "pop literature"?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 18:03:06 2023 No.22189056 File: 5 KB, 188x196, Smugapu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22188957 ____________________________________________________________________no

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 18:22:44 2023 No.22189114 >>22188601 Seconding this one

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 25 21:56:21 2023 No.22189890 >>22188601 Dont buy this. I did and now the CIA is tracking me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 26 02:38:01 2023 No.22190617 >>22189890 hey, it's me, CIA

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