This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes and boycotts--separate brutal regimes from their means of control. They tell inside stories--how Danes outmaneuvered the Nazis, Solidarity defeated Polish communism, and mass action removed a Chilean dictator--and also how nonviolent power is changing the world today, from Burma to Serbia.

Peter Ackerman holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Jack Duvall is President of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Ackerman and Duvall are coauthors of A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict.

Part I: Movement to Power * Russia, 1905: The People Strike * India: Movement for Self-Rule * Poland: Power from Solidarity * Part II: Resistance to Terror * The Ruhrkampf, 1923: Resisting Invaders * Denmark, the Netherlands, the Rosenstrasse: Resisting the Nazis * El Salvador, 1944: Removing the General * Argentina and Chile: Resisting Repression * Part III: Campaigns for Rights * The American South: Campaign for Civil Rights * South Africa: Campaign Against Apartheid * The Philippines: Restoring Democracy * The Intifada: Campaign for a Homeland * China, Eastern Europe, Mongolia: The Democratic Tide * Part IV: Violence and Power * The Mythology of Violence * The New World of Power * Victory without Violence