Autocracy, Inc
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**A Sunday Times Bestseller****An Economist Best Book of the
Year**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks
trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a
cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad
man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little
resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one
bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic
financial structures, security services and professional
propagandists.The members of these networks are connected not only
within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt,
state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with
corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one
country can arm, equip, and train the police in another.The
propagandists share resources—the troll farms that promote one
dictator’s propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of
another—and themes, pounding home the same messages about the
weakness of democracy and the evil of America. Unlike military or
political alliances from other times and places, this group doesn’t
operate like a bloc, but rather like an agglomeration of companies:
Autocracy, Inc. Their relations are not based on values, but are
rather transactional, which is why they operate so easily across
ideological, geographical, and cultural lines.In truth, they are in
full agreement about only one thing: Their dislike of us, the
inhabitants of the democratic world, and their desire to see both
our political systems and our values undermine. That shared
understanding of the world—where it comes from, why it lasts, how
it works, how the democratic world has unwittingly helped to
consolidate it, and how we can help bring it down—is the subject of
this book.
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Anne Applebaum ,
Penguin Books Ltd
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Anne Applebaum,
Penguin Books Ltd
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Slovart
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