TY - BOOK ID - 86346979 TI - The Ba'thification of Iraq : Saddam Hussein's totalitarianism PY - 2015 SN - 1477305580 1477305572 PB - Austin, [Texas] : University of Texas Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political parties KW - Totalitarianism. KW - Hussein, Saddam, KW - Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Iraq) KW - History. KW - Iraq KW - Politics and government KW - Totalitarian state KW - Authoritarianism KW - Collectivism KW - Despotism KW - Dictatorship KW - Fascism KW - National socialism KW - Parties, Political KW - Party systems, Political KW - Political party systems KW - Political science KW - Divided government KW - Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) KW - Political conventions KW - Ḥusayn, Ṣaddām, KW - Tikrītī, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn, KW - Takrītī, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn, KW - Hussain, Saddam, KW - Husain, Saddam, KW - Ḥusayn, Ṣadām, KW - Husein, Sadam, KW - Ḣu̇sei̐n, Săddam, KW - Khuseĭn, Saddam, KW - Husain, Sadam, KW - Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, Saddam Ḥussein, KW - Saddam Hussein, KW - חוסין, צדאם KW - حسين، صدام KW - حسين، صدام، KW - صدام حسين KW - Baath Party (Iraq) KW - Arab Baʻth Socialist Party (Iraq) KW - ASBP KW - A.S.B.P. KW - Arabische Sozialistische Baʻth Partei (Iraq) KW - Baʻat' (Iraq) KW - Mifleget ha-Baʻat' (Iraq) KW - Miflagah ha-teḥiyah ha-ʻArvit ha-sotsyalisṭit (Iraq) KW - Parti arabe socialiste "Baas" (Iraq) KW - Parti Baʾth arabe et socialiste (Iraq) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86346979 AB - Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq as a dictator for nearly a quarter century before the fall of his regime in 2003. Using the Ba’th party as his organ of meta-control, he built a broad base of support throughout Iraqi state and society. Why did millions participate in his government, parrot his propaganda, and otherwise support his regime when doing so often required betraying their families, communities, and beliefs? Why did the “Husseini Ba’thist” system prove so durable through uprisings, two wars, and United Nations sanctions? Drawing from a wealth of documents discovered at the Ba’th party’s central headquarters in Baghdad following the US-led invasion in 2003, The Ba’thification of Iraq analyzes how Hussein and the party inculcated loyalty in the population. Through a grand strategy of “Ba’thification,” Faust argues that Hussein mixed classic totalitarian means with distinctly Iraqi methods to transform state, social, and cultural institutions into Ba’thist entities, and the public and private choices Iraqis made into tests of their political loyalty. Focusing not only on ways in which Iraqis obeyed, but also how they resisted, and using comparative examples from Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia, The Ba’thification of Iraq explores fundamental questions about the roles that ideology and culture, institutions and administrative practices, and rewards and punishments play in any political system. ER -