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050	1	4	_aJQ 1849 _bS252s 2011
082	0	0	_a324.2567
100	1		_aSassoon, Joseph.
245	1	0	_aSaddam Hussein's Ba'th Party : _binside an authoritarian regime / _cJoseph Sassoon.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_axxi, 314 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600	1	0	_aHussein, Saddam, _d1937-2006.
650		0	_aIraq _xPolitics and government _x1979-1991.
650		0	_aPolitical Science / Government / International
650		4	_aIrak _xPolítica y gobierno _x1979-1991.
650		4	_aCiencia Política _xGobierno _xInternacional.
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