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…as the expression of a fundamental conflict between a state with totalitarian intentions and an emerging civil society. Compares developments in China with the transformation of Eastern Europe. Keywords: Political movements / Political opposition / Democracy / China…

…in the poorest nations. Most critically at stake is the survival of the Iraqi people, especially the most vulnerable, who suffer doubly under the oppression of a totalitarian dictatorship and the gruelling consequences of one of the harshest economic blockades…

…in the British and American zones represent today the strongest outpost against Communist penetration that exists anywhere.”(7) At this response Truman changed his attitude toward the Soviets with the words, “ there isn’t any difference between the totalitarian…

…Dzerzhinsky, the Cheka became the prototype of totalitarian secret police systems, enjoying at critical times the right the right of unlimited arrest and summary execution of suspects and hostages. The principle of such police surveillance over the political…

…their imperial precursors, for then 'the radio had inadvertently returned to the individual a bit of the liberty taken from him by the totalitarian government and punctured the monopoly of information which the Nazis had relied' (Kris & Speier 1944, p. 88…

…to the Houyhnhnms, calling them walking corpses. He sees their society as the epitome of totalitarianism, where the attitude is "we know everything already, so why should dissident opinions be tolerated?" (Orwell, 1971: 353). Surely this could not have been Swift's idea…

…that accompanied both world wars and the totalitarian fascist government which sparked the neorealist movement into existence towards the end of WW II. The shock that a population largely responsible for the cultural revival of the west (Renaissance), was now one…

…. Bibliography Adam, P., Art of the Third Reich, N. H. Abrams, New York, 1992 Golmstock, I., Totalitarian Art: in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and the Peoples republic of China, Collins, London 1990 Hinz, B., Art in the Third Reich…

…about the past sufficiently forceful to shape future behavior or public policy (Caplan, 1992; 1994). And while the fear of the imposition of eugenic programs by a totalitarian regime must be taken seriously it is not the only path eugenics might follow…

…inexorably from having so many people. This quotes represents Watts’ fear for the future; George Orwell and Aldous Huxley both explore the future state of civilization in their novels. They both warn us of the dangers of a totalitarian society. Both books…