CHS Pathfinder: Dictators
Terms to use in searching the CHS Catalog
Totalitarian regimes, authoritarianism. Dictators, tyrants - specific names. Examples are - Batista, Castro, Ceausescu, Duvalier, Franco, Hitler, Kim Jung Il, Marcos, Mugabe, Mobutu, Mussolini, Noriega, Peron, Pinochet, Pol Pot, Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Somoza, Stalin, Trujillo
Make sure you are aware of variations in spelling or names: Mao Zedung, may be Mao Tse-Tung and is usually listed under Mao
Call numbers: Go "browse" the shelves in these areas
Biographies - ordered by the subject's last name
R 920
Some books which may be borrowed
Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators by Orizio (2002) 920 ORI
Some Reference books - to be used in the library
Biographical Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Leaders (2000) R 920.009 BIO
Dictionary of World Biography (1999) R 920.02 DIC
Encyclopedia of World Biography R 920 ENC
Grolier Library of International Biographies: Political & Military Leaders (1996) R 920 GRO
Magazine databases and other eResources
Gale Virtual Reference Library
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Multicultural Reference Center
SIRS
TOPICsearch
Newsbank
Newspaper Source
Web sites
Bringing Down a Dictator The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
World's 10 Worst Dictator - functioning now - according to Parade Magazine
AV - Videos, DVDs
Mao Tse Tung (A&E Biography) VID B MA
Napoleon VID B NAP