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History didnt end Democracy didnt triumph Americas leading role in the world is no longer assured Instead authoritarian rule is on the rise and the global order established after 1945 is under attack This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles in Dancing on Bones as she examines how the leaders of China Russia and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian ruleRussia has annexed Crimea started a war in eastern Ukraine and repeatedly massed troops on its borders China has stepped up war games near Taiwan and militarized the South China Sea while North Korea has resumed missile testing and bloodcurdling threats against the United States These three states consistently top lists of threats to US and European security and yet the leaders of all three insist that it is their country that is threatened rewriting history and exploiting the memory of the wars of the last century to justify their actions and shore up popular support Since coming to power Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of Chinas World War II Vladimir Putin has elevated the memory of the Great Patriotic War to the status of a national religion and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state while those who try to challenge the official version of history are silenced and jailed But this didnt start with Putin Xi and Kim and it wont end with themDrawing on firsthand ontheground reporting Dancing on Bones argues that if we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading we must understand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past