Autor Frank Dikotter

From renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikotter - 'the historian of China' (Spectator) - a commanding new history of China's path to Communism, brought to the people at the barrel of a gunThe history of modern China has long been portrayed as a…

Uznávaný historik Frank Dikötter vypráví strhující příběh moderní historie Číny a jejího hospodářského vzestupu po katastrofě tzv. kulturní revoluce. Díky ojedinělému přístupu ke stovkám dosud nezveřejněných dokumentů z archivů komunistické strany nahlíží…

Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term.A…

A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . .. Combined with this linguistic skill, Dik tter has a writer's gift EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great…