Some have grown extraordinarily rich in doing this. One example is Muammar Gaddafi, the former leader of the African state of ...

At the moment of a big uproar, everyone will abruptly turn away. And even the innermost circle, which has no chance of crowding the huge family on a plane. Fear and money are flimsy foundations of ...

The unlimited political power makes one a dictator and it isn’t a surprise how they accumulate their wealth. Here are the richest dictators of all time, as reported by Manish Sahajwani forYahoo ...

Hitler’s ally Benito Mussolini had a similar taste in underground lairs, and he manifested that truism of all dictators – the longer they stay in power, the deeper their paranoia, and ...

Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century. How did they seize and lose power? What forces were against them? Learn the answers in these six immersive hours ...

Through a comparative case study of Pol Pot and Slobodan Milosevic it argues that the role ideology plays in the decision-making process of the dictator is an important determinant of their ...

We already explored the bizarre things dictators did, and now it's time to bring you their bizarre obsessions. Sure, power, money, and status are all things that infamous tyrants are hungry for.

When Robert Mugabe was deposed last year, he had ruled Zimbabwe for nearly four decades. So just how do dictators and authoritarians stay in power for so long? In Radio 4's Analysis, James Tilley ...

Crédito: Amr Nabil/AP All dictators usually kill. They seldom do it themselves. They prefer others bear the stain of the blood. They live obsessed with staying in power because they know that ...

Editor’s Note: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history at New York University. She is author of the book “Strongmen: ...