TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sassoon,Joseph
TI  - Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime 
SN  - 9781139042949 (ebook)
AV  - JQ1849.A98 B378 2011
U1  - 324.2567/083 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Iraq)
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139042949
ER  -