Inside an Authoritarian Regime / [electronic resource] Sassoon, Joseph creator author. text enk 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Joseph Sassoon. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Iraq) JQ1849.A98 B378 2011 324.2567/083 9781139042949 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139042949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139042949 UkCbUP 110302 20180107143416.0 CR9781139042949