Examples of totalitarianism in the following topics:
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- Dictatorships govern without consent of the people and in totalitarian dictatorships the power to govern extends to all aspects of life.
- Nazi Germany may be the most familiar example of a totalitarian dictatorship.
- Dictatorship and totalitarianism are often associated, but they are actually two separate phenomena.
- Many dictatorships are also totalitarian.
- In 1972, Nixon traveled to China and met with Mao Zedong, the leader of the totalitarian Chinese Communist Party.
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- Unlike democracy, authoritarianism and totalitarianism are forms of government where an individual or a single-party concentrates all power.
- The concept of totalitarianism was first developed in a positive sense in the 1920s by Italian fascists.
- Authoritarianism primarily differs from totalitarianism in that social and economic institutions exist free from governmental control.
- In other words, dictatorship concerns the source of the governing power and totalitarianism concerns the scope of the governing power.
- A number of thinkers, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, have argued that Nazi and Soviet regimes were equally totalitarian.
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- Other forms of government include oligarchy and dictatorship or totalitarianism.
- Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system that strives to regulate nearly every aspect of public and private life.
- Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism.
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- Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system that strives to regulate nearly every aspect of public and private life.
- Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism.
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- During the Shōwa period, Japan shifted toward totalitarianism until its defeat in World War II, when it led an economic and cultural recovery.
- During the pre-1945 period, Japan moved toward political totalitarianism, ultra-nationalism, and fascism, culminating in Japan's invasion of China in 1937.
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- Pre-WWII Japan was characterized by political totalitarianism, ultranationalism, expansionism, and fascism culminating in Japan's invasion of China in 1937.
- During the pre-1945 period, Japan moved into political totalitarianism, ultranationalism and fascism, as well as a series of expansionist wars, culminating in Japan's invasion of China in 1937.
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- In the aftermath of World War I, Japan's ambitions to become a global power led to establishing a unique totalitarian political system that combined ancient Japanese traditions with elements of European fascism and resulted in aggressive territorial expansion.
- Totalitarianism, militarism, and expansionism were to become the rule, with fewer voices able to speak against it.
- With the launching of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association in 1940 by Prime minister Fumimaro Konoe, Japan would turn to a unique form of government that resembled totalitarianism.
- All political parties were ordered to dissolve into the Association, forming a one-party state based on totalitarian values.
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- During Stalin's totalitarian rule of the Soviet Union, he transformed the state through aggressive economic planning, the development of a cult of personality around himself, and the violent repression of so-called "enemies of the working class," overseeing the murder of millions of Soviet citizens.
- By gradually consolidating his influence and isolating and outmaneuvering his rivals within the party, Stalin became the undisputed leader of the Soviet Union and, by the end of the 1920s, established totalitarian rule.
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- One alternative spectrum offered by the conservative American Federalist Journal accounts for only the "degree of government control " without consideration for any other social or political variable and, thus, places "fascism" (totalitarianism ) at one extreme and "anarchy" (no government at all) at the other extreme.
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- Individualism is often contrasted either with totalitarianism or with collectivism, but in fact there is a spectrum of behaviors at the societal level ranging from highly individualistic societies through mixed societies to collectivist societies.