Deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad joins a succession of autocratic Arab leaders ousted from power since the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011. His peers in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen were ...

Elena Ceaușescu, Romania’s controversial “chemist” Wife of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu ... is one of the most mysterious figures on this list. A former singer and cheerleader, she appears ...

After Yugoslavia's king declared himself dictator in 1929, Pavelić fled the country in order to organize an ultra-nationalist movement called Ustaše. After Axis forces took over Yugoslavia in ...

Dictators loom large in the cultural imagination of the 20th and 21st centuries. It’s easy to see why this would be the case, as these periods saw the rise and dominance of despots around the ...

Source:Dictators’ Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants, Britannica Hitler was a vegetarian and by the end of his life ate only mashed potatoes and broth. Foods of choice ...

So just how do dictators and authoritarians stay in power for so long? In Radio 4's Analysis, James Tilley, a professor of politics at Oxford University, finds out what's in the dictators ...

Ilya Yashin is a Russian opposition politician. In many countries around the world — from Russia and Iran to Venezuela and Cuba — dictators regularly draft new laws aimed at destroying ...