| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| 1 | On Modern Tyranny | 1 |
| 2 | Moderation Abandoned | 25 |
| 3 | In the Beginning Was the Word | 71 |
| 4 | Death, Lies, and Decay | 121 |
| 5 | A Typological Map of Tyranny | 167 |
| 6 | Imagined Egalitarian Hells: Maoism and the Khmer Rouge | 175 |
| 7 | Little Stalins? Socialist Corporatism at the Service of the Nation and the Leader | 231 |
| 8 | Little Hitlers? Elite Fantasies in Argentina and Iraq, and Their Realization | 267 |
| 9 | An Inadvertent Catastrophe: Burma's Confrontation with Colonialism, Modern Nationalism, and Ne Win | 309 |
| 10 | Race aud Corruption on the Island of Hispaniola: Two Caribbean Nightmares | 341 |
| 11 | Colonialism, Resentment, and Chaos: Two African Studies | 373 |
| 12 | Some Propositions, Lessons, and Predictions about Tyranny | 403 |
| Notes | 429 |
| Bibliography | 457 |
| Index | 479 |
