Revolutionary Monsters, Donald Critchlow
Revolutionary Monsters, Donald Critchlow
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Revolutionary Monsters
Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny

Author: Donald Critchlow

Narrator: Chris Lutkin

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2021


Synopsis

All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors—capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they replaced. Much has been written about the anatomy of revolution from Edmund Burke to Crane Brinton Crane, Franz Fanon, and contemporary theorists of revolution found in the modern academy. Yet what is missing is a dissection of the revolutionary minds that destroyed the old for the creation of a more harmful new. Revolutionary Monsters presents a collective biography of five modern-day revolutionaries who came into power calling for the liberation of the people only to end up killing millions of people in the name of revolution: Lenin (Russia), Mao (China), Castro (Cuba), Mugabe (Zimbabwe), and Khomeini (Iran). Revolutionary Monsters explores basic questions about the revolutionary personality and examines how these revolutionaries came to envision themselves as prophets of a new age.

About Donald Critchlow

Donald T. Critchlow is the author and editor of more than twenty books, including In Defense of Populism and Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan. He is the co-editor of the first definitive history of the United States published in Polish, Historia Stanów Zjeednockownych Ameryki. The Katzin Family Professor at Arizona State University, he has lectured extensively in Europe, China, and Brazil. He has also appeared on C-SPAN, NPR's Talk of the Nation, BBC World News, and other news outlets.

About Chris Lutkin

Chris Lutkin has been an actor, a director, a writer, and a teacher for over thirty years. He has narrated several audiobooks including The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick, 12 Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Red Badge of Courage. He currently resides in Detroit with his wife, Heather, and their rescue dog, Buckaroo.


Reviews

Great read! Once I started I couldn’t put it down. Very well written and informative. As a recent college graduate, it was a historical perspective on these dictators which I never got from my studies. With the times we are living in now, I highly recommend Revolutionary Monsters!......more

Goodreads review by Paul

As has often been noted, those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it. There are many important historical lessons to be learned and reminded of in this relatively short and easy to read but nonetheless well researched, engrossing book. It does not take long to read "Revolutionary Mon......more

Goodreads review by Jurij

Chapter 1: Lenin 9/10 The intro is kinda banal. The author is neutral on this topic and fully apolitical so far. He is basically just saying "revolutionaries promising a utopia are often wolves in sheeps' clothing". Of course impossible to disagree with, but surely the author must have learned somethi......more