Question
A recent book by historian Daniel Kalder reviews books such as Doctrine and Action by people in this title role. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this role, the subject of a 2019 book by Frank Dikotter titled “How To Be [One of These People].” In Rome, Fabius was appointed to this temporary role in 221 BCE during the Second Punic War.
ANSWER: dictators [reject synonyms such as “leader” or “fascist”] (Doctrine and Action was written by Oliveira Salazar.)
[10e] This dictator was described by Kalder as “the Bill Bryson of dialectical materialism.” This man’s Foundations of Leninism outlines the political system of his predecessor.
ANSWER: Joseph Stalin [or Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin; or Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili]
[10h] This dictator schemed to build a statue that would open a different page of his book Rukhnama or Book of the Soul each night.
ANSWER: Saparmurat Niyazov [or Turkmenbashi; or Türkmenbaşy; or Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov]
<Michael Bentley, History - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous> ~22872~ <Editor: Michael Bentley>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 19.72 | 81% | 89% | 28% |