TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sassoon,Joseph
TI  - Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: inside an authoritarian regime 
SN  - 9780521149150
AV  - JQ 1849 S252s 2011
U1  - 324.2567 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Hussein, Saddam,
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1979-1991
KW  - Political Science / Government / International
KW  - Irak
KW  - Política y gobierno
KW  - Ciencia Política
KW  - Gobierno
KW  - Internacional
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
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