{"product_id":"revolutionary-monsters-five-men-who-turned-liberation-into-tyranny-9781684511242","title":"Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 206 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 23 December 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Regnery History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAll sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors—capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they replaced. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMuch has been written about the anatomy of revolution from Edmund Burke to Crane Brinton Crane, Franz Fanon, and contemporary theorists of revolution found in the modern academy. Yet what is missing is a dissection of the revolutionary minds that destroyed the old for the creation of a more harmful new. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collective biography of five modern day revolutionaries who came into power calling for the liberation of the people only to end up killing millions of people in the name of revolution:  Lenin (Russia), Mao (China), Castro (Cuba), Mugabe (Zimbabwe), and Khomeini (Iran). \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e explores basic questions about the revolutionary personality, and examines how these revolutionaries came to envision themselves as prophets of a new age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 402g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 235 x 158 x 26 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781684511242\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donald T. Critchlow","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44102561235194,"sku":"9781684511242","price":15.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1646169925976_book.jpg?v=1646919102","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/revolutionary-monsters-five-men-who-turned-liberation-into-tyranny-9781684511242","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}