From Dictatorship to Democracy
A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
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Offers a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive governments that has influenced resistance movements around the world, including Iran, Venezuela, and Egypt.
Perseus Publishing
Offers a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive governments that has influenced resistance movements around the world, including Iran, Venezuela, and Egypt.
Perseus Publishing
Twenty-one years ago, at a friend’s request, a Massachusetts professor
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Offers a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive governments that has influenced resistance movements around the world, including Iran, Venezuela, and Egypt.
Perseus Publishing
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Sharp (political science, UMASS Dartmouth) analyzes the anatomy of dictatorships, the cultures of nonviolent resistance that bring them down, and how effective democratic modes of collective life are forged out of those cultures. It's not a detailed analysis of any particular struggle with a dictator, but more of an abstract view on the elements that Sharp has gleaned from his interactions with survivors and resistors of dictatorships. He considers facing dictator's realistically so as to reduce casualties, the dangers of negotiations, sources of political power, attacking the weaknesses of dictators through nonviolent struggle, strategic planning and applying political defiance. A final chapter presents "a groundwork for durable democracy" that addresses the threat of new dictators and defending democracy. An appendix also offers a cheat-sheet of different kinds of nonviolent actions people can take. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Offers a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive governments that has influenced resistance movements around the world, including Iran, Venezuela, and Egypt.
Perseus Publishing
Twenty-one years ago, at a friend’s request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from country to country across the globe: from Iran to Venezuela?where both countries consider Gene Sharp to be an enemy of the state?to Serbia; Afghanistan; Vietnam; the former Soviet Union; China; Nepal; and, more recently and notably, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, where it has served as a guiding light of the Arab Spring.
This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear guide to overthrowing a dictatorship by nonviolent means lists 198 specific methods to consider, depending on the circumstances: sit-ins, popular nonobedience, selective strikes, withdrawal of bank deposits, revenue refusal, walkouts, silence, and hunger strikes. From Dictatorship to Democracy is the remarkable work that has made the little-known Sharp into the world’s most effective and sought-after analyst of resistance to authoritarian regimes.
This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear guide to overthrowing a dictatorship by nonviolent means lists 198 specific methods to consider, depending on the circumstances: sit-ins, popular nonobedience, selective strikes, withdrawal of bank deposits, revenue refusal, walkouts, silence, and hunger strikes. From Dictatorship to Democracy is the remarkable work that has made the little-known Sharp into the world’s most effective and sought-after analyst of resistance to authoritarian regimes.
Book News
Sharp (political science, UMASS Dartmouth) analyzes the anatomy of dictatorships, the cultures of nonviolent resistance that bring them down, and how effective democratic modes of collective life are forged out of those cultures. It's not a detailed analysis of any particular struggle with a dictator, but more of an abstract view on the elements that Sharp has gleaned from his interactions with survivors and resistors of dictatorships. He considers facing dictator's realistically so as to reduce casualties, the dangers of negotiations, sources of political power, attacking the weaknesses of dictators through nonviolent struggle, strategic planning and applying political defiance. A final chapter presents "a groundwork for durable democracy" that addresses the threat of new dictators and defending democracy. An appendix also offers a cheat-sheet of different kinds of nonviolent actions people can take. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Imprint:
New York : [Jackson, Tenn.] - New Press , Distributed by Perseus
Pages:
138
ISBN:
9781595588500, 1595588507
Language:
English
Notes:
Originally published in Bangkok in 1993 by the Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in Burma
Includes bibliographical references
Includes bibliographical references
Statement of responsibility:
Gene Sharp
Characteristics:
viii, 138 p. ;,19 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Sharp, Gene
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