A Totalitarian State? When Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party took power in 1933, a wave of terror was begun which led to the genocide of millions of people and the destruction of much of the European continent. While the reign of the National Socialist regime has been universally recog...

Atomized and Alienated Atomized and Alienated: The Place of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen in Hannah Arendt's Totalitarian Model In Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt outlines the fundamental qualities that characterize and allow the rise of a totalitarian regime. From the outset,...

In the early 1920s Mussolini was amongst the first fascists to refer approvingly to the newly emerging Italian Fascist state as 'totalitarian'. During the late 1950s and the early 1960s – particularly in a Cold War fixated America - a theory centred on totalitarianism became the ...