COUP D’ÉTAT:
THE TECHNIQUE OF REVOLUTION
by
Curzio
Malaparte
Translated by Sylvia Saunders
E. P. Dutton
1932
CONTENTS
Chapter One: The
Bolshevik’s Coup d’État and Trotsky’s Tactics
Chapter Two: A Coup
d’État That Failed: Trotsky vs. Stalin
Chapter Three:
1920—Poland’s Experience: Order Reigns in Warsaw
Chapter Four: Kapp or
Mars vs. Marx
Chapter Five:
Bonaparte—or the First Modern Coup d’État
Chapter Six: Primo de
Rivera and Pilsudski: A Courtier and a Socialist General
Chapter Eight: A
Would-Be Dictator: Hitler
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