7 days ago
Mao and Stalin — did they lead the way for tyrannical leaders like Trump?
Books on tyrants, dictators, and authoritarian leaders are suddenly bestsellers again as we all try to make sense of the tilt towards tyrannical leadership around the world, the mass compliance it commands, and its use of terror, fear, and often violence, to govern.
Two of Australia's leading scholars on China and the Soviet Union, Linda Jaivin (author of BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS! The Cultural Revolution in China) and Sheila Fitzpatrick (author of The Death of Stalin) join Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell to consider two 20th Century tyrants whose legacies live on today.
Speakers
Linda Jaivin
Author and China specialist
Associate, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University
Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick
Historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union
Professor, Australian Catholic University and Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
This event was presented by Readings Books with Black Inc Books, with thanks to events producer Christine Gordon.
