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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party
    sub title: inside an authoritarian regime
  name:
    name part: Sassoon, Joseph.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 U.S. 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. Saddam Hussein's authority was dominant. His decision was final, whether arbitrating the promotion of a junior official or the death of a rival or a member of his family. As this gripping portrayal of Saddam Hussein's Iraq demonstrates, the regime was every bit as authoritarian and brutal as Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China and some of the regimes in the Arab world who are witnessing upheavals, are not not dissimilar from the Ba'th regime.
  table of contents: 1. The rise of the Ba'th party -- 2. Party structure and organization -- 3. The Ba'th party branches -- 4. Security organizations during the Ba'th era -- 5. The Ba'th and the army -- 6. The personality cult of Saddam Hussein -- 7. Control and resistance -- 8. Bureaucracy and civil life under the Ba'th.
  note: Joseph Sassoon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-299) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-iq---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Iraq)
  subject:
    geographic: Iraq
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1979-1991
  subject:
    geographic: Iraq
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1991-2003
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hussein, Saddam
      name part: 1937-2006
  classification: JQ1849.A98 B378 2012
  classification: 324.2567/083
  identifier: 9780521193016 (hardback)
  identifier: 052119301X (hardback)
  identifier: 9780521193016 (paperback)
  identifier: 052119301X (paperback)
  identifier: 2011025076
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110611
    record change date: 20151202150234.0
    record identifier: in00002747349