Enfants de dictateurs plaquette

Penetrate the private lives of the children of 20th century dictators

CHILDREN OF DICTATORS • What has become of the children of the dictators of the 20th century? What was their childhood like, and what kind of relationships did they have with their fathers?

• The unknown stories of the children of Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, Mao, Ceausescu, Castro, Duvalier, and many others.  The last interview of Svetlana Stalin  Edda Mussolini’s unconditional love for her father  Zoia Ceausescu’s loyalty to her father  Nikolaï Lukashenko, the illegitimate son of Alexander Lukashenko (still in power in Belarus), a budding dictator among the powerful of this world

A book full of contrasts :

9 October 2014 372 pages 154 x 240 mm 15-photo insert Softcover with flaps 21,90€

The innocence of childhood vs. The cruelty of the regime The intimate fathers vs. The father of the people

Involuntary actors in a scenario over which they had no control, some of them were compelled to sacrifice their innocence to a regime which saw in them a vision of dynastic continuity. Others, on the contrary, were treated no better than the rest of the population. They were placed in the spotlight in the service of dogmatic propaganda or hidden, exiled, or disowned to avoid drawing attention from an inaccessible father.

If some of these children acknowledge and even proclaim their paternal heritage, for others, it is too heavy a burden to bear. The latter will continue with all their strength to hide or to cut themselves off from the man to whom they owe life.

Fiery and complex relationships, that lie between the private history of an individual and the big historical picture.

___________________________________________________ Foreign rights contact : Rebecca Byers : rebecca.byers@edi8.fr. Tel : +33 (0) 1 44 16 08 90

Penetrate the private lives of the children of 20th century dictators It’s a matter of penetrating the private lives of these “children of”, explaining the context of their respective childhoods and how they experienced this unusual heritage.

In these men who marked the course of history with such violence, can one see fathers like any others, affectionate or perhaps cold, feared or adored?

And, once they had reached adulthood, how did these children react to their filiation? Did they unfailingly embrace the ideas of their fathers or reject them, did they feel indifference, or something else? Did they prolong their fathers’ actions (as in the case of dictatorial dynasties), or did they, on the contrary, turn sharply away from them? What do they make of this heritage?

Two editors of complementary talents:  Jean-Christophe Brisard, journalist and author of several documentaries about dictators  Claude Quétel, renowned historian A prestigious group of authors – academies or journalists – all experts on the regime concerned

Table of contents  Stalin’s Children, by Lana Parshina (including the last interview given by Svetlana Stalin)  Mussolini’s Children, by Michel Ostenc  Franco’s Children, by Bartolomé Bennassar  Mao’s Children, by Jean-Christophe Brisard  Ceausescu’s Children, by Marion Guyonvarch  Castro’s Children, by Jacobo Machover  Duvalier’s Children, by Catherine Eve-Roupert  The Children of the Shah of Iran, by Jean des Cars  Kim Il Sung’s Children, by Arnaud Duval  Bokassa’s Children, by Jean-Pierre Langellier  Mobutu’s Children, by Vincent Hugeux  Pinochet’s Children, by Jean-Pierre Langellier  Hussein’s Children, by Khattar Abou Diab  Qadafi’s Children, by Vincent Hugeux  Mubarak’s Children, by Anne-Clémentine Larroque  Lukashenko’s Children, by Valery Karbalevitch  al Assad’s Children, by Frédéric Encel

___________________________________________________ Foreign rights contact : Rebecca Byers : rebecca.byers@edi8.fr. Tel : +33 (0) 1 44 16 08 90