02164nam a22003258a 4500 CR9781139042949 UkCbUP 20180107143416.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110302s2011||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139042949 (ebook) 9780521193016 (hardback) 9780521149150 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda JQ1849.A98 B378 2011 324.2567/083 23 Sassoon, Joseph, author. Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party : Inside an Authoritarian Regime / [electronic resource] Joseph Sassoon. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of this extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born scholar and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. They uncover the secrets of the innermost workings of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers and how the system of rewards functioned. Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Iraq) Print version: 9780521193016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139042949 Cambridge Books Online 236750 236750