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- ISBN 9781836391661
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
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Featured in New Statesman’s Culture Preview 2026: The best non-fiction to read this year
Enver Hoxha, one of the most fanatical communist leaders of the twentieth century, ruled Albania for forty years. He was a Stalinist modernizer who sought to pull his country out of its peripheral status through rapid industrialization and diplomatic cunning. Albania transitioned from one ideological alliance to another, breaking first with Tito’s Yugoslavia, then Khrushchev’s USSR and lastly post-Maoist China. Masterfully exploiting rivalries within the communist bloc, Hoxha was able to ensure his regime’s survival and play an outsized role in the ideological clashes that riddled the communist world during the second half of the twentieth century. Meanwhile, at home he built a cult of personality and maintained his grip over power by ruthless coercion.
Enver Hoxha: Twentieth-Century Tyrant paints a nuanced picture of Hoxha’s psychological, ideological and political worlds, illuminating a lesser-known story of the Cold War, and enriching our understanding of the nature of authoritarianism and dictatorship.
Robert C. Austin (Author)
Robert C. Austin is a professor at the University of Toronto and the author of many books on the Balkans.
Artan R. Hoxha (Author)
Artan R. Hoxha is a historian of southeastern Europe based in Tirana, Albania.
Robert C. Austin is a professor at the University of Toronto and the author of many books on the Balkans.
Artan R. Hoxha (Author)
Artan R. Hoxha is a historian of southeastern Europe based in Tirana, Albania.
