Enver Hoxha: Twentieth-Century Tyrant
A small Balkan state broke with Yugoslavia, then Moscow, then Beijing, and covered itself in bunkers. Austin explains the sequence without claiming Hoxha becomes legible.
A small Balkan state sealed itself off from the world, breaking with Yugoslavia, then the USSR, then China, and covering its own countryside in concrete bunkers. Austin explains the sequence without pretending Hoxha himself becomes psychologically legible, and is good on how the regime treated its own youthful population as the principal threat.
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Tyler Cowen
How did this strange story end up happening? This book offers the best set of explanations I have seen. But Hoxha himself remains a psychological cipher at the end of it all?
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