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All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors--capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they replaced. Much has been written about the anatomy of revolution from Edmund Burke to Crane Brinton Crane, Franz Fanon, and contemporary theorists of revolution found in the modern academy. Yet what is missing is a dissection of the revolutionary minds that destroyed the old for the creation of a more harmful new. Revolutionary Monsters presents a collective biography of five modern-day revolutionaries who came into power calling for the liberation of the people only to end up killing millions of people in the name of revolution: Lenin (Russia), Mao (China), Castro (Cuba), Mugabe (Zimbabwe), and Khomeini (Iran). Revolutionary Monsters explores basic questions about the revolutionary personality and examines how these revolutionaries came to envision themselves as prophets of a new age.

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Donald T. Critchlow is the author and editor of more than twenty books, including In Defense of Populism and Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan. He is the co-editor of the first definitive history of the United States published in Polish, Historia Stanów Zjeednockownych Ameryki. The Katzin Family Professor at Arizona State University, he has lectured extensively in Europe, China, and Brazil. He has also appeared on C-SPAN, NPR's Talk of the Nation, BBC World News, and other news outlets. Chris Lutkin has been an actor, director, writer, and teacher for over thirty years. He has narrated several audiobooks including The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick, 12 Stories by Edger Allen Poe, and The Red Badge of Courage. He currently resides in Detroit with his wife, Heather, and their rescue dog, Buckaroo.

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