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Tudoroiu uses the case studies of Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, and Fidel Castro to introduce the concept of the revolutionary totalitarian personality as an independent type. Using a combination of 'intentionalist' and 'functionalist' factors, the author explains the decisive role played by a leader's personality type in choosing a totalitarian trajectory and in shaping the totalitarian process. The book contrasts this under-studied category with the impact of structural constraints on the development of totalitarian regimes, which are indirect, limited, and distorted. In the second half of the book the author focusses on Venezuela's late President, Hugo Chávez, and considers present political and ideological developments in Latin America, and especially the Middle East, as likely sources of future totalitarian experiments decisively influenced by the revolutionary totalitarian personality of their leaders. A vital contribution to the existing literature, the book goes beyond the descriptive level to conceptualize this crucial aspect of totalitarianism.
The Revolutionary Totalitarian Personality Hitler, Mao, Castro, and Chávez
by Tudoroiu, TheodorFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2016-01-20
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Author Biography
Dr Theodor Tudoroiu earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Université de Montréal, Canada. He is currently Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine.
Table of Contents
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 Chávez
Conclusion
Index
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 Chávez
Conclusion
Index
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