The Unknown Gaddafi

8 hrs. 55 min.

Language Russian

Author Anatoly Yegorin

Narrator allmaestro

Description

Tragic events in Libya, and the armed intervention by NATO countries in the civil war, stirred interest worldwide in the figure of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. This book by RAEN academician, professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.Z. Egorin is both a portrait and, at the same time, an account of Muammar Gaddafi’s activities—"the Bedouin of the Libyan Desert,” as he calls himself—leader of a new type of Arab state: the Socialist Jamahiriya. Before the uprising by Gaddafi’s opponents and NATO’s bombing raids, Libya was one of the flourishing countries of North Africa. Gaddafi is not merely a charismatic people’s leader: he is the author of the so-called "third world theory," set out in his "Green Book." It calls for the implementation of direct rule by the people—people’s participation in governing politics and the economy without the traditional institutions of power.
Why did NATO countries and the Arab elites dependent on the West turn against Gaddafi? We will find the answer in A.Z. Egorin’s book. The author knows Libya well and worked there for six years (1974–1980) as an adviser to the Soviet embassy in the Jamahiriya. This is Russia’s first fundamental edition about Muammar Gaddafi and the modern political situation in North Africa.