🎧 What Makes a Dictator with Frank Dikötter
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit
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22m
Dan talks to Frank Dikötter, an eminent professor on Chinese history, who has written a new book about dictators around the world. They discuss what dictators need to do to control power and whether there is anything different about the people who become dictators. Producer: Peter Curry
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