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Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party
Joseph Sassoon
其他書名
Inside an Authoritarian Regime
出版Cambridge University Press, 2011-12-12
主題Political Science / World / Middle EasternHistory / Middle East / GeneralReligion / Islam / GeneralSocial Science / Islamic StudiesPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralPolitical Science / Human Rights
ISBN11395039289781139503921
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zEsgAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of this extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born scholar and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. They uncover the secrets of the innermost workings of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers and how the system of rewards functioned.