Republic of Fear The Politics of Modern Iraq

Kanan Makiya

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Publisher's Synopsis

This is an account of how the ruling (Ba'thist) party in Iraq came to power, the extent of its police rule, its corruption and the fear it engendered.;It reveals the brutal arrogance of Saddam Husain's regime which treats its political enemies as its Kurdish minority. The twenty years of Stalinist terror from the coup d'etat which brought the regime to power in 1968 to the end of the Iran-Iraq war is plotted.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780091740191
Publisher:	Hutchinson
Imprint:	Hutchinson
Pub date:	06 Jul 1989
DEWEY:	320.9567
DEWEY edition:	19
Language:	English
Weight:	601g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm