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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Totalitarian Nationalism in Nazi Germany The main reason why the Nazi Party gained so much popularity among Germans, was that their policies appealed to German nationalism. ... Another reason that helped the Nazis gained power was that after WW1 the Communists violently attempted to overthrow the government. ... Totalitarianism is government control over all aspects of a particular country and a person's life. A totalitarian state is usually led by a dictator, which is "above" the law and has the power over life and death. ... The Nazi regime in Germany was a totalitarian one, ...

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Post-Holocaust thought, coupled with the atrocities committed by the Stalinist state in Russia, led to the classification of such governments as totalitarian. Included in this philosophy is a work by Hannah Arendt, entitled The Origins of Totalitarianism, in which Arendt analyzes the workings and philosophy behind such systems of government. One central aspect of Arendt's work concerns her analysis of a three stage process by which a totalitarian government destroys its citizens in order to maintain its absolute power. ... Arendt further postulates that totalitarian governments seek to ...

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Fascism as a political totalitarian movement of the right was born in Italy in 1919 with the name Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, meaning Italian Fasces of Fighting and by 1923 the Fascist movement came to power after the so-called 'March to Rome'1 and very soon after, under the dictatorial government of Benito Mussolini took complete control of society.2 In these years, the passion for nationalism on which the Fascist ideology was based found breeding sites everywhere in the world where the wounds of the Great War were still open. ... By 1926 Mussolini passed a law that declared h...

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The Utopian government is made up of two very different styles of government: democratic and oligarchic. ... This type of government is a totalitarian anarchy: one in which only a few people control the entire power of the country, which has no laws. ... Members of the Outer Party manned the various government ministries in Oceania. ... The Utopian government, though it is run by a very small contingent of people, is not totalitarian in nature. ... This is indicative of the true nature of the government. ...

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The Utopian government is made up of two very different styles of government: democratic and oligarchic. ... This type of government is a totalitarian anarchy: one in which only a few people control the entire power of the country, which has no laws. ... Members of the Outer Party manned the various government ministries in Oceania. ... The Utopian government, though it is run by a very small contingent of people, is not totalitarian in nature. ... This is indicative of the true nature of the government. ...

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Fidel Castro is considered by many to be a totalitarian dictator who completely and consciously confines the freedoms of a nation. ... The Cuban people were in a position where they desired a "strong" government to restore the law and order that had been lacking during the previous government administration. ... The rebels attempted to undermine government authority and demonstrate that the administration was incompetent. ... He publicized that the government would match, dollar for dollar, any hotel investment over one million dollars. ... "The parasitic nature of the regime prevented it from...

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Throughout this essay I will be dwelling into the various ways that Orwell depicts these concepts within his book 1984. 1984 is one of Orwell's best made novels, and it remains one of the most powerful warnings ever issued against the dangers of a totalitarian society. ... He illustrated that peril harshly in 1984 in the hopes of bringing to light the dangerous aspects of a totalitarian society to prevent a possible rise in totalitarianism within western society. ... An interesting take on totalitarian governments that used religion to keep the masses passive and placated but in a much ge...

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Abstract This article looks at how citizen journalism can have a positive effect towards combating government oppression and the means utilised to do so. I first created a picture of the communication system with our government by looking at a well-known example. This fictional example, George Orwells 1984, describes the relationship between citizens and their totalitarian government in a dystopian setting. ... Each of these totalitarian Superstates is deemed to be so strong that even an alliance of two could not bring down the third. ...

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Governments were often seen as corrupt, indecisive, and defeatist. ... They attacked socialists, often physically, and succeeded in taking over some local governments. ... Without firing a shot the Black Shirts had gained control of the Italian government. ... He then moved to close down parliamentary government and other parties entirely. ... Mussolini's government also controlled the police, muzzled the press, and censored academic activity. ...

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Garraty suggested similarities between the two systems were: having a strong leader, an ideology stressing the nation, the people, the land, the state control of economic and social affairs, and the quality and quantity of government propaganda. ... He believes the conflation of the monumental which he describes as "backward looking" as reflecting the political ideologies of the Third Reich and other totalitarian regimes, as well as the association of modern architecture with liberal democracy and the social welfare state as being too simplistic. ... Therefore neoclassicism could n...

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Chapter 2 Origins of Democracy The Greeks viewed dictatorship as the worst possible form of government, so their government evolved as the exact opposite. ... There were no representatives in the Greek system of government. ... The Roman Empire (509-27 BC) took some of their governmental ideals from the Greeks. ... Governmental power was divided between these two branches and they voted on various issues. ... "Democracy is a system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant part in the governmental process," according to American Government by Theodore Lowi and Benjamin Ginsberg....

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During the time of mistrust and hostility between USA and USSR, Senator Joseph McCarthy chaired a committee to rid of the Communists from the United States government and its nation. Mc Carthy alleged that the United States government departments were infiltrated by the communists and this made him start a campaign against them. ... Oceania was a totalitarian society led by Big Brother, which censored everyone's behaviour, even their thoughts. Winston was angry with his oppressed life and secretly wanted to join the fabled Brotherhood, a group of underground rebels with the intent of over...

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The staggering changes for women that have come about throughout history in religion, in government, in employment, in education, and in politics did not just happen spontaneously. ... At the local government level the number of women councilors had been rising steadily, if less spectacularly, since the 1970's; so that across England, Scotland, and Wales more than one-quarter of councilors are women (Bochel 2000). ... Countries with high levels of gender equality will have more women in politics than those countries with lower levels due to the fact that where women are viewed as equal...

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As nationalism and the economy grew, and the middle class wanting more say in the government, a unified Germany was inevitable to say the least. Prussia realized the potential of a unified Germany lead by their own government. ... As his popularity grew through the Prussian government, he became ambassador to Russia, and shortly after he became the ambassador to Paris. ... He would be liberal to what the people views, and ideas were, or he could turn into a totalitarian leader. ... Once appointed Chancellor of Prussia, Bismarck immediately took an arbitrary role in the government by dismis...

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Through coercive tactics this new government seized power and in 1917 Lenin came to power. ... Lenin's government made many achievements. It ended a long civil war against the remnants of the old Czarist military system and established institutions in government. ... Lenin died in 1924, and was quickly followed by Joseph Stalin as head of the Soviet Communist Party, the oppressive reforms started by Lenin were continued and at length became completely totalitarian. ... The economic status of the Soviet Union was yet again changed and the entire system became controlled by the government...

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Upon taking office in early 1933, Hitler and his government prohibited all Communists assemblies and Communist media. ... What seems to be the most shocking aspect of this law, which as a result made Germany a totalitarian state, was that the Nazi party was able to achieve this status with little opposition from other political parties. ... For example, General von Epp, acting on behalf of Hitler, had several storm troopers expel the government of Bavaria on March 9, and replaced them with a Nazi government. On April 7, Hitler's government issued new legislation, which dismissed ...

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Thus the federal government could enforce the new laws. ... The Southern government devised ingenious ways to keep blacks from voting, made possible by the absence of federal troops (62). ... The Solid South was no less than "totalitarian (Duncan 73)." ... The ideas before the Civil Rights Movement included racism and white supremacy, government apathy, and the will of African-Americans to rise from a slum of poverty and discrimination. ... Moving to government apathy, after Grant was elected to office, there was a general retreat of the Republican party, the main support for civil ri...

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John Locke was the first to propose the idea that individuals are borne with natural rights prior to the existence of government and it is the government that ought to safeguard those rights. ... Jefferson clearly declared on paper that all men hold certain rights, which the government is obliged to secure and if it fails it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish" (14:1) that government. ... Well it means more and more Americans are becoming disenfranchised with the government. ... Certainly, Libertarians are aghast by the level of which our government's role has grown. ... Y...

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Thus total war led to the establishment of history's first totalitarian society, with Germany leading the way in this enterprise.17 Many steps had to be taken in order to accomplish this goal. ... Government planning boards were created in order to prioritize and decide what was to be produced and consumed.18 In his annual message to the Congress in 1942, president Franklin D. ...

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Before the beginning of this sociological research there had been risen a big question of what means the absence of women in a governmental hierarchy of Kazakhstan. ... In other words the explanation of the results should satisfy the idea about what means the absence of women in governmental administration - intentional dismissal them from it or an indifference of women themselves, unwillingness to participate in it. ... The equality of rights between men and women was proclaimed in many countries by their governments in the 20th century. ... The totalitarian society tried to construct true ...

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Before Nicolae Ceausescu came to power, Romania needed someone to make drastic changes in the government so that they could come out of repression . ... From her position as chief of the Party and State Cadres Commission, she was able to dictate organizational and personnel changes throughout the party and the government. ... Also these children felt left behind by the elite class of the country and their unfair treatment from the government. The government decided what university or college the children were going to attend. ... The government was afraid that the intelligentsia would...

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Thoughts of social equity joined with government by accord and pride in flexibility frame the European Idea. ... It is contradicted to the thought of government by one man or as today in the USA of government by a world class. ... Europeans have known degenerate and tyrannical government however they have a place somewhere else. ... In Europe, social solidarity turned into the heart of its belief system, on account of ahead of schedule social popular government and communism. ... Today Europeans are cutting social projects as no tyrant, conservative Mexican government could ever do. ...

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Wall Street icons like Lehman Bros, toppled and required government bailouts. ... It is possible to have democratic societies that emphasize a mix of collectivism and individualism and it is also possible to have totalitarian societies that are not collectivist. ... The government decides things without the knowledge of the population, even though they claim it to be a democracy. ... American government is intolerant with corruption acts, and when it is discovered the fines are too high. The United States has a heavy historical of government actions transparency. ...

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It was a totalitarian state with complete Communist control over all facets of life. ... This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved by undemocratic methods, that is, rigged elections, terror, totalitarian state, harassment and threats. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and ...

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