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100 1 _aCompagnon, Daniel.
245 1 2 _aA predictable tragedy
_h[electronic resource] :
_bRobert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe /
_cDaniel Compagnon.
260 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_cc2011.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (333 p. )
336 _atext
_btxt
337 _acomputer
_bc
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aAuthoritarian control of the political arena -- Violence as the cornerstone of Mugabe's strategy of political survival -- Militant civil society and the emergence of a credible opposition -- The media battlefield : from skirmishes to full-fledged war -- The judiciary : from resistance to subjugation -- The land "reform" charade and the tragedy of famine -- The state bourgeoisie and the plunder of the economy -- The international community and the crisis in Zimbabwe -- Conclusion : crisis averted or merely postponed?
520 _aWhen the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into poverty and astronomical inflation. The government once praised for its magnanimity and ethnic tolerance was denounced by leaders like South African Nobel Prize-winner Desmond Tutu. Millions of refugees fled the country. How did the heroic Mugabe become a hated autocrat, and why were so many outside of Zimbabwe blind to his bloody misdeeds for so long? In "A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe" Daniel Compagnon reveals that while the conditions and perceptions of Zimbabwe had changed, its leader had not. From the beginning of his political career, Mugabe was a cold tactician with no regard for human rights. Through eyewitness accounts and unflinching analysis, Compagnon describes how Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) built a one-party state under an ideological cloak of anti-imperialism. To maintain absolute authority, Mugabe undermined one-time ally Joshua Nkomo, terrorized dissenters, stoked the fires of tribalism, covered up the massacre of thousands in Matabeleland, and siphoned off public money to his minions-all well before the late 1990s, when his attempts at radical land redistribution finally drew negative international attention. -- Book jacket.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aZimbabwe
_xEconomic conditions
_y1980-
651 0 _aZimbabwe
_xSocial conditions
_y1980-
651 0 _aZimbabwe
_xHistory
_y1980-
651 0 _aZimbabwe
_xPolitics and government
_y1980-
600 1 0 _aMugabe, Robert Gabriel,
_d1924-
648 7 _aGeschichte 1980-2009.
_2swd
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812200041/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2011 History
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2011 Complete
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2011 African Studies
999 _c42368
_d42368