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09-04-2014, 10:04 PM
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.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy#cite_note-1) The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sharp) (b. 1928), a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Dartmouth). 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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein_Institution) of Boston, Massachusetts. Its primary English-language edition is currently (2012) the Fourth United States Edition, published in May 2010.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy#cite_note-2)
The book has been circulated worldwide and cited repeatedly as influencing movements such as the Arab Spring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring) of 2010–2012.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy#cite_note-cnn2012_06_23-3)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy#cite_note-dailytimes2012_06_01-4)[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy#cite_note-ft2012_06_25-5)[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy#cite_note-nytimes2012_06_11-6)



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