From Dictatorship to Democracy: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

From Dictatorship to Democracy, credited to Gene Sharp, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of From Dictatorship to Democracy, by Gene Sharp. From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one. The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (b. 1928), a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts. The book has been published in many countries worldwide and translated into more than 30 languages. Editions in many languages are also published by the Albert Einstein Institution of Boston, Massachusetts. This is the Fourth United States Edition, published in May 2010. The book has been circulated worldwide and cited repeatedly as influencing movements such as the Arab Spring of 2010–2012.

Recording facts

• Recording title: From Dictatorship to Democracy
• Author credits: Gene Sharp
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 3:49:32

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• politics

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface — 6:25
2. 02 - Chapter 1 - Facing dictatorships realistically — 25:51
3. 03 - Chapter 2 - The dangers of negotiations — 16:45
4. 04 - Chapter 3 - Whence Comes the Power? — 20:17
5. 05 - Chapter 4 - Dictatorships have weaknesses — 7:27
6. 06 - Chapter 5 - Excercising Power — 31:24
7. 07 - Chapter 6 - The need for strategic planning — 18:38
8. 08 - Chapter 7 - Planning strategy — 33:29
9. 09 - Chapter 8 - Applying Political Defiance — 15:59
10. 10 - Chapter 9 - Disintegrating the Dictatorship — 18:05
11. 11 - Chapter 10 - Groundwork for durable democracy — 12:54
12. 12 - Appendix 1 - The methods of nonviolent action — 14:00
13. 13 - Appendix 2 - Acknowledgements and notes on the history of from dictatorship to democracy — 8:28

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