Totalitarian Governments use the people in a total movement to achieve a goal. ... However the biggest reason that totalitarian government came into play was because of the Great Depression. ... With the introduction of his "Five Year Plan", to increase industry by two hundred and fifty percent and agriculture by one hundred and fifty percent, he solidified his position and the birth of a totalitarian government through the goal of industry. ... Finally, the greatest emergence of totalitarian government happened in the beaten and torn country of Germany. ... These three nations were the mo...

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In a repressive and totalitarian government, people lose the ability to exercise free will. ... The totalitarian government believes that the good life can be accomplished by brainwashing those that do not comply with the societal norms established by the community. ... In doing so, the government includes and excludes Alex in the sense that before he is treated he is excluded from the community because of his acts on his perception of the good life; he is included in the community once he fulfills his social obligation to live up to the good life that has been established by the government. ...

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1984 Totalitarian World Living in a society with limited freedom of expression is not enjoyable. A Totalitarian society is a good example of such a society, because although it provides control for the people, it can deny them a great deal of freedom to express there individuality. The fictional society in 1984 also is a metaphor for a Totalitarian society. ... A thought crime is any bad thought against the government of Oceania. ... Although the book starts off as the story of a paranoid man, it quickly turns into a protest against a totalitarian government. ...

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The totalitarian society in the novel is headed by a corrupt government, and portrays the future as a "schizoid, psychotic world" (Zehr 419). ... O"Brien can be seen as a spy inside an opposing government. ... The purpose of the political novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, is to warn the readers in the West of the dangers inflicted by a totalitarian government (Sparknotes 1). In The Novel, "Orwell portrays the perfect totalitarian society, the most extreme realization imaginable of a modern-day government with absolute power" (Sparknotes 1). ... Totalitarian governments can be the cause for the ...

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Both George Orwell in 1984 and Aldous Huxley in Brave New World highlight the thought control of a totalitarian government to demonstrate how total information control can result in an absence of individuality. ... In both novels, the totalitarian governments condition their citizens to make sure they act to their high standards. ... The government in Brave New World believes that "you can't make tragedies without social instability" (Huxley 220), meaning that emotional literature will do nothing to benefit the government, and will only help people realize their own thoughts and emotio...

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American Government Study Guide Theocracy - a system of government in which God himself rules personally or through chosen representatives. ... Direct Democracy - The truest form of democratic government in which the people rule directly by popular vote. ... Totalitarian Dictatorship - a form of autocratic government in which the ruler exercises total control over all areas of life. ... Nationalism - nationalism=the promotion of ones own nation and government regardless of moral considerations. ... Edward I - increased the influence of England's government when he convened the Mod...

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In 1933 Hitler began laying the foundations of his totalitarian state. However Nazi Germany was never a true totalitarian state, it took until 1944 to fully co-ordinate the army, although in the first year of Nazi government, the army budget increased so much they were unable to spend all of it . ... At the start Hitler's position as Fuhrer was in political terms the merging of the offices of President (head of state) and Chancellor (head of government). ... Clearly the Hitler Youth was a vital part of the creation of a totalitarian state. ... Hitler compared the creation of a pure to...

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Germany was once a totalitarian state, displaying the dominant characteristic of the Nazi regime by using terror and violence against its own community. ... Unlike a democracy, where limits would be set by the law on the government and the police, the law was unable to protect the individual from the activities of the Gestapo, as Hitler was the law and controlled the actions of all terrorist groups. ... The use of terrorism and violence was one way in which the German totalitarian state was upheld during this time. ...

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Totalitarian Regimes are a form of government that has just recently came into existence in the twentieth century. ... Totalitarian regimes can be considered also under the name of despotism, which have the early characteristics of Totalitarian regimes. ... The leader in totalitarian regimes does not have to answer to anyone. ... Corruption is present to a certain extent within totalitarian regimes. In totalitarian regimes there is a high amount of conformity because the leader says to do something and they do not want anyone to rebel against the government. ...

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Civil and non-profit organizations make an impact in our nation by influencing for change and the bettering of our society; however they have a distinct effect in different types of governments like authoritarian, totalitarian, and constitutional democracies. ... Although non-profit and civil organizations make a difference in the United States, somewhere where they have no affect is in countries that have an authoritarian or totalitarian government. Countries like Cuba, North Korea, and Iran have governments where the voice of the people is not heard because the governmental power is given ...

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The term 'totalitarianism' was first coined in Italy in May 1923 as a term of abuse against Mussolini's Fascist government. ... Looking at Hitler's Germany, one can say that it stands for a good example of a totalitarian state. ... The new dictator then abolished the Landers which were the local councils and replaced them by Gauleiters, which are Nazi controlled local governments. ... And as every totalitarian state, this single mass Party was directed by an official ideology: Nazism. ... The Nazi ideology stated that every woman should keep her body pure and away from op...

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A totalitarian government is a "modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens" (Bartleby). ... Most importantly, the emergence of totalitarian governments usually occurs as a result of historical forces, such as chaos during the aftermath of an event such as a World War. ... The chaos which followed WWI allowed totalitarian governments to be founded in Russia, Italy, and Germany. ... All totalitarian governments employ a secret police to keep the people of the state under control. ... It is obvious while ...

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A totalitarian government is a "modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens" (Bartleby). ... Most importantly, the emergence of totalitarian governments usually occurs as a result of historical forces, such as chaos during the aftermath of an event such as a World War. ... The chaos which followed WWI allowed totalitarian governments to be founded in Russia, Italy, and Germany. ... All totalitarian governments employ a secret police to keep the people of the state under control. ... It is obvious while readi...

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A totalitarian government is a "modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens" (Bartleby). ... Most importantly, the emergence of totalitarian governments usually occurs as a result of historical forces, such as chaos during the aftermath of an event such as a World War. ... The chaos which followed WWI allowed totalitarian governments to be founded in Russia, Italy, and Germany. ... All totalitarian governments employ a secret police to keep the people of the state under control. ... It is obvious while ...

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Since the Patriot act the Government ceased public immigration hearings and also withheld "sensitive information" by either removing the information from government web sites or just not informing the public. ... The government can prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation; this directly attack our freedom of speech. ... Liberties that are annulled by a government insist that the government needed control over its citizens. This dissolution of liberties foretells that we are headed ...

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In some countries like Saudi Arabia political parties are outlawed because with the totalitarian monarchial system of government they employ there would have no purpose. ... Even so, not all totalitarian states outlaw political parties. North Korea, a country notorious for its totalitarian ideals does allow a range of political parties. ... Another example of political parties in a totalitarian state is Belarus. Out of all three of the cases of totalitarian systems of government Belarus is the most lenient towards the idea. ...

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That ended his run or his version of another Totalitarian government. ... In 1300he was elected into the House of Commons as a Troy (a government party). But that was the first of his many changes between the government parties. He was forced out of the government when a campaign he supported was an abysmal failure. ... The differences are they were from different countries; Church hill had a different government, while the other two were similar in a totalitarian government. ...

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The background of the story is dystopian future, where a totalitarian country named Panem was created from post-revolution of North America1. ... The Country of Panem in this movie is a totalitarian state. Totalitarian state itself is a state which its form of government has the centralized, total power of both public and private life of its people3. ... On the other hand, there are the people, who are using Katniss as their symbol, who want to break free from totalitarian regime created by the country of Panem. ... However, killing Katniss while she was still in the spotlight was an unwise mo...

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Machiavelli for the most part would not have accepted a totalitarian government. ... The totalitarian government goes against most everything Machiavelli tells the prince. ... Arendt talked about her many fears of the totalitarian government in the essay. ... From this, I assumed that her thoughts on the totalitarian government were not good ones. ... Although Machiavelli did many merciless things, he did not encourage the prince to lead a totalitarian government. ...

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To what extent could Nazi Germany be considered a totalitarian state in the Period 1933-45? ... Bracher's approach provides a valuable insight into key aspects of Hitlarian domination - aspects that were clearly totalitarian. ... Berghahn has noted that other government departments and agencies developed their own propaganda units (the NSDAP had 14000 people on its patrol by 1934). ... Consequently several of the features identified by Friedrich, which comprise a Totalitarian State, were clearly present in the State constructed by Hitler. ... The vital concept underlying the totali...

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Orwell could see the makings of a totalitarian government in the rise of authority in Hitler, Franco, and Stalin. ... Although the novel was published in 1949, Orwell was not trying to predict the future; rather his purpose was to warn against the possibilities of a totalitarian government. ... Orwell appealed to every sense to bring the reader into the story and to portray the almost limitless control a totalitarian government might obtain. ... There are many people who are told something and they take it for the truth, and those are the people who are taken advantage of by a totalitaria...

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The novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is a satire portraying the dangers of any totalitarian government. ... Orwell is successful in establishing that any totalitarian system of government is equally as bad as another. ... He is a dictator, and under his horrible rule the animals were treated dreadfully, and they definitely felt the repercussions of his totalitarian government. ... Propaganda has been used in totalitarian governments since the beginning of Marxist theory. Propaganda is constantly apart of every totalitarian government as it adds to the control the dictator has over society...

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This type of ideology focused on issues such as the nature of mankind, a mass party system, a system of terror, military control by the government, and alliances with big businesses. For instance, it was evident that the Nazi Party represented totalitarian values because Hitler had total domination over the government. ... For example, self-government in the German States was abolished in 1933, and The Reichsrat was also abolished in the same year. ... Because of the Nazi Party's ability to take control of the people, the government, and the daily life actions that took place, it was a...

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