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Dictatorship and tyranny articles, essays, debate and features from the Prospect archive.

Nietzsche in Harare

Stephen Chan The era of Robert Mugabe—the most intellectual of African presidents—is coming to an end. Who will follow him?
May 2007

Frederic Raphael Michael Burleigh's study of the intersection of politics and religion in the 20th century is a monumental accomplishment. But does he let the Catholic church off too lightly?
April 2007

Letter from Argentina

Nick Pearce The use of the corpse as a political weapon has a long history in Argentina. The body has become political because of the country's arrested political development
March 2007

"Idi Amin, my hero"

John Nagenda An adviser to the Ugandan president tells the story behind the making of The Last King of Scotland—and has a surprising conversation with Forest Whitaker

January 2007

Vasily Grossman

Robert Chandler The Russian writer's novel "Life and Fate"—often compared with "War and Peace"—was first published in English in the mid-1980s. But only now is interest taking off among a wider public
September 2006

Russia's colluders

Jeremy Putley The Beslan school crisis and the Moscow theatre siege took place with the knowledge and possibly even the assistance of Russian authorities

July 2006

Mugabe's last gasp

Stephen Chan Zimbabwe's economy is in meltdown. Can Mugabe's successor learn from China?
June 2006

Last dance for Cuba

Ruaridh Nicoll As the Ballet Nacional de Cuba comes to London, British audiences will have perhaps a final chance to behold one of the country's great cultural institutions—stuck in a timewarp, but glorious nevertheless
August 2005

Explaining Ahmadinejad

Michael Axworthy How did a hardliner defy expectations to win Iran's presidency?
August 2005

The Uzbek tinderbox

Anthony Robinson Most post-Soviet states, like Ukraine, decided not to shoot their citizens. Not Uzbekistan
July 2005

Dangerous pity

David Rieff The millions donated to Ethiopia in 1985 thanks to Live Aid were supposed to go towards relieving a natural disaster. In reality, donors became participants in a civil war. Many lives were saved, but even more may have been lost in Live Aid's unwitting support of a Stalinist-style resettlement project
July 2005

Albanian witness

Julian Evans Ismail Kadare, who charted the legacy of Hoxha's Albanian dictatorship, reminds us that the Balkans is a storehouse of European literature
July 2005

The Yukos affair

Anthony Robinson The dramatic arrest 18 months ago of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, then Russia's richest man, marked the end of the first, positive, phase of the Putin regime and the return of fear to Russian politics. But thanks to Kremlin errors and in-fighting, there is a new spirit of resistance to creeping authoritarianism
April 2005

Has Mugabe won?

Tom De Castella Zimbabwe's opposition MDC is losing momentum. It should boycott next year's elections

January 2005

Sympathy for the devil

Edward Skidelsky By daring to portray Hitler intimately on film, "Der Untergang" reveals the power of fiction to upset moral judgement. Germany still can't take it
December 2004

War is peace

Tim Snyder It seems far-fetched to compare today's America to the totalitarian nightmare of Orwell's "1984." But the novel can also be read as a warning about the failings of mass democracies, especially in wartime
November 2004

Who may we bomb?

Barry Buzan Do people get the governments they deserve? It's not always possible to dinstinguish between guilty governments and innocent civilians
December 2001

Previous convictions

Kamila Shamsie I used to believe in democracy
December 2001

China and freedom

Lawrence F Kaplan Capitalism and authoritarianism can co-exist. Look at 19th century Germany or Japan
October 2001

Beauty & the beast

John Jackson Western attacks on Burma's pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, merely assist the military regime
August 2001

Gut wrenching

Michael Ignatieff The 1970s student generation now in power assumed that Pinochet was a synonym for infamy. They had to think again
December 1998

Writing for Rupert

Timothy Garton-Ash The HarperCollins affair which briefly convulsed the British media raises a host of big questions about free speech, the way we deal with dictators and the power of media proprietors. Timothy Garton Ash, one of the writers who left HarperCollins in protest, draws some unexpected conclusions
April 1998

Indonesia's strongman

Charles Glass General Suharto is senior partner in the world's biggest family business-Indonesia. The economic crash has exposed the weakness of that business, says Charles Glass, which could now be on the brink of political turmoil
March 1998

Democratic tyranny

Fareed Zakaria The western political system is a fusion of constitutional liberalism, established over many centuries, and modern mass democracy. But an increasing number of countries are choosing electoral democracy without liberalism
December 1997