num_pages: 535
description: In 424 B.C. the Spartan secret police executed some 2,000 potential political opponents. As brutal as this action was, it could not compare, in numbers, to those executed in Russia during the Great Purge. Some 600,000 are believed to have been shot in 1937 and 1938. What did Sparta have in common with the Societ Union, in fact, with all other dictatorships? Sparta was short of resources.
language: English
title: Poverty, Wealth Dictatorship, Democracy: Resource Scarcity and the Origins of Dictatorship
titlecomplete: Poverty, Wealth Dictatorship, Democracy: Resource Scarcity and the Origins of Dictatorship
publisher: Pericles Pr