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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There's also this:

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/from-dictatorship-to-democracy-by-gene-sharp-6286451.html

I have been thinking that I need to get my hands on a copy. The guy is legit, supposedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Nonviolent_Action

Another of his 30 or so books, “Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System” (1990), was invoked by government officials in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1991 as they regained independence from the Soviet Union.

“I would rather have this book than the nuclear bomb,” Audrius Butkevicius, the former Lithuanian defense minister, once said.

[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

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