Joseph Sassoon

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Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian RegimeHardcover, 12 December 2011

Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime
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Print Length
336 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date Published
12 Dec 2011
ISBN-10
052119301X
ISBN-13
9780521193016

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The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 U.S. 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. Saddam Hussein's authority was dominant. His decision was final, whether arbitrating the promotion of a junior official or the death of a rival or a member of his family. As this gripping portrayal of Saddam Hussein's Iraq demonstrates, the regime was every bit as authoritarian and brutal as Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China and some of the regimes in the Arab world who are witnessing upheavals, are not not dissimilar from the Ba`th regime.

Product Details

Author:
Joseph Sassoon
Book Format:
Hardcover
Date Published:
12 December 2011
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
052119301X
ISBN-13:
9780521193016
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
336
Weight:
566.99 gm

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