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Despotism

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The case for democracy

Ron Dermer, Anatoly Shcharansky, Natan Sharansky et al.

2004

On Tyranny

Leo Strauss

1963

Worst of the Worst

Robert I. Rotberg

2007

From the royal to the republican body

Sara E. Melzer, Kathryn Norberg

1998

The tyrant's novel

Thomas Keneally

2004

Auf den Marmorklippen

Ernst Jünger

1947

A New Universal History of Infamy

Hughes, Rhys

2004

Oriental despotism

Karl August Wittfogel

1957

Friends in council

Sir Arthur Helps

1847

Domination of Eastern Europe

Orest Subtelny

1986

The ballad of Johnny Sosa

Mario Delgado Aparaín

2002

The origin of tyranny

P. N. Ure

1922

Louis XV and the Parlement of Paris, 1737-1755

John Rogister

1995

Emerald sea

John Ringo

2004

Село Степанчиково и его обитатели

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1920

Griftopia

Matt Taibbi

2010 ★ 4.0

The last town

Blake Crouch

2014

Dictatorships and double standards

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

1982

Galileo, courtier

Mario Biagioli

1993

Louis XIV and Absolutism

William Beik

2000

The white flag

Gene Stratton-Porter

1923

The FBI & American Democracy

Athan G. Theoharis

2004

Tyrants

Nigel Cawthorne

2006

At the dawn of tyranny

Eli Sagan

1985

Winter's end

Jean-Claude Mourlevat

2009

Absolutism and the eighteenth-century origins of compulsory schooling in Prussia and Austria

James Van Horn Melton

1988

Vindiciae contra tyrannos, or, Concerning the legitimate power of a prince over the people, and of the people over a prince

Hubert Languet

1994

Mazarin

Geoffr Treasure

1997

Dread Empire's Fall

Walter Jon Williams

2003 ★ 3.2

Psychosis and power

James M. Glass

1995