Modern tyrants : the power and prevalence of evil in our age / Daniel Chirot.

Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-477) and index.

1: On Modern Tyranny -- 2: Moderation Abandoned -- 3: In the Beginning Was the Word -- 4: Death, Lies, and Decay -- 5: A Typological Map of Tyranny -- 6: Imagined Egalitarian Hells: Maoism and the Khmer Rouge -- 7: Little Stalins? Socialist Corporatism at the Service of the Nation and the Leader -- 8: Little Hitlers? Elite Fantasies in Argentina and Iraq, and Their Realization -- 9: An Inadvertent Catastrophe: Burma's Confrontation with Colonialism, Modern Nationalism, and Ne Win -- 10: Race aud Corruption on the Island of Hispaniola: Two Caribbean Nightmares -- 11: Colonialism, Resentment, and Chaos: Two African Studies -- 12: Some Propositions, Lessons, and Predictions about Tyranny.