20 Dictators of the World

In the late nineteenth and twentieth century, with the disappearance of monarchies in many parts of the world, a new autocratic system emerged – the dictatorship, in which all power over a state or community was again concentrated into the hands of one person, without being restricted by constitution, laws or opposition. The individual with this kind of absolute authority was known as the dictator.Here are the twenty dictators of modern times whose actions have left a strong imprint on destiny of the country they ruled, and sometimes even influenced the very history of the world.More often though, dictators rose to the power by leading a coup d'état, in which often a weak monarch of government was deposed and instead a dictatorship established. A nice read book to deep into history.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ContentsIntroduction—51. Porfirio Diaz—92. Vladimir Lenin—183. Adolph Hitler—274. Ho Chi Minh—365. Joseph Stalin—456. General Franco—547. Mao Zedong—638. Josep Broz Tito—739. Leonid Brezhnev—8110. Kim Il-Sung—9011. Nicolae Ceausescu—10012. Pol Pot—10713. Fidel Castro—11414. Idi Amin—12515. Sayyad Ali Khameini—13416. Mengitsu Haile Mariam—14317. Saddam Hussein—15018. Muammar Al Gaddafi—15919. Robert Mugabe—17020. Jorge Rafael Videla—179Conclusion—188