Dictators and Leadership: Lessons from Stalin and Mao
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Accepted wisdom says dictators rule in an arbitrary and willful manner, with their subordinate leaders living in constant fear, always vulnerable to the dictator’s will, and always looking to defend themselves in a Hobbesian war of all against all. Gill challenges that notion by looking at two of the most heinous dictators of the 20th century, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
Graeme Gill
This profile was current as of 2018, when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community.
Graeme Gill (PhD, University of London), a fall 2018 Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow, is a political scientist who specializes in Soviet and Russian politics...
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