The Revolutionary Totalitarian Personality Hitler, Mao, Castro, and Chvez [Hardcover]

This book uses the case studies of Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Ch?vez in order to introduce the concept of revolutionary totalitarian personality, and to show that this type of personality is decisive in choosing a totalitarian regime-building project and in shaping the ensuing totalitarian process.

This book uses the case studies of Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Ch?vez in order to introduce the concept of revolutionary totalitarian personality, and to show that this type of personality is decisive in choosing a totalitarian regime-building project and in shaping the ensuing totalitarian process.

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes
1. The Personality of Political Leaders
2. The Tortuous Path to Glory
3. Revolutionary Leaders
4. Charismatic Leaders
5. Totalitarian Leaders
6. International Leaders
7. The Narcissist and His Other Disorders
8. The Revolutionary Totalitarian Personality
9. Testing the Model: the Revolutionary Totalitarian Characteristics of Hugo Ch?vez
Conclusion
Index
Tudoroiu (Univ. of West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago) offers a conceptual framework in political psychology that explains the rise of totalitarian political regimes around the globe. He introduces the concept of revolutionary totalitarian personality as part of authoritarian personality literature. & Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. (S. Mitropolitski, Choice, Vol. 54 (2), October, 2016)

Dr Theodor Tudoroiu earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Universit? de Montr?al, Canada. He is currently Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine.

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