From Dictatorship to Democracy
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| Author | Gene Sharp |
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| Country | United States; others |
| Language | English & 30+ others |
| Publisher | Albert Einstein Institution |
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Publication date
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1994; others |
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Published in English
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1994 |
| Pages | 93 (2010); others |
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| OCLC | 706499601 |
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one. The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (b. 1928), a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts. The book has been published in many countries worldwide and translated into more than 30 languages. Editions in many languages are also published by the Albert Einstein Institution of Boston, Massachusetts. As of 2012[update] its current primary English-language edition is the Fourth United States Edition, published in May 2010.
The book has been circulated worldwide and cited repeatedly as influencing movements such as the Arab Spring of 2010–2012.
From Dictatorship to Democracy (FDTD) was written in 1993 at the request of a prominent exiled Burmese democrat, Tin Maung Win, who was then editor of Khit Pyaing (The New Era Journal), in Bangkok, Thailand. The book took several months to write as the author drew upon several decades of experience in scholarship on nonviolent action.FDTD was first published in 1993 as installments in Burmese and English in Khit Pyaing. In 1994, it was issued as a booklet in both English and Burmese. Since that time, there have been several additional English-language editions and translations into more than 30 additional languages.
From Dictatorship to Democracy contains a preface and ten sections. Its first appendix includes 198 Methods Of Nonviolent Action that were taken from Gene Sharp's The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973), Part Two, The Methods of Nonviolent Action. The main sections of the 4th US edition are entitled:
Three appendices are included in the fourth US edition of FDTD:
Appendix 3 gives a step-by-step procedure for effectively translating FDTD into other languages.
From Dictatorship to Democracy has been circulated worldwide and cited repeatedly as influencing movements such as the Arab Spring (pictured) in 2011. Sharp has stated that after FDTD was first written, "although no efforts were made to promote the publication for use in other countries, translations and distribution of the publication began to spread on their own.... We usually do not know how awareness of this publication has spread from country to country."
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