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…, and was quickly succeeded by Joseph Stalin. With the Bolsheviks in power, they appointed Stalin as the head of the Soviet Communist Party. (Von Laue, p. 125). The oppressive reforms started by Lenin were continued and at length became completely totalitarian. Stalin…

…of Enlightenment as well as a lifestyle devoid of autocratic repression and degrading institution of serfdom. Upon their return, however, they were thrust back into the totalitarian Russian society. A wave of resentment and humiliation began to boil over the troops…

…to be consistent with the ideals of democracy. The democratic governments began associating it with totalitarian states, such as Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany because these governments did not hesitate to use the term. During World War II, Adolph Hitler established…

…into brute totalitarianism. Similarly, Auden’s early wartime poem, ‘Kairos and Logos,’ implies that the irruption of the ‘savage’ into the ‘garden’ is the direct consequence of the failure of liberalism to raise a spiritual wall against barbarism (Duchene 100…

…personality? It is a close call and exactly the kind of tortured moral judgment that the government has no business making. A non-totalitarian state must leave such judgments to its citizens to make for themselves, according to their individual ideas of religion…

…further then Heidegger’s fear of modern man as "the functionary of technology," forcing large proportions of modern men, women and children to become the victims of technology in the automated killing of the death camps. The totalitarian state…

…be redeemed from its tyranny. As in forms of cyberpunk, the Matrix shows a world that cannot be redeemed from the totalitarianism from its own technology. "All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see…

…Hitler came to power in Germany. Einstein was lecturing at the California Institute of Technology at the time, and never returned to Germany. The Nazis, with their Aryan hatred and totalitarian government, would almost certainly tear their country apart…

…of in the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome. In theory, everyone is equal in a communist government, however this is not true in many aspects. When only one person controls a communist government, it’s not far off from totalitarianism, as that one voice…

…threatened with losing their jobs if they persisted with their intent to strike. They did, and they were. These seemingly totalitarian methods are justified by the authority which the government maintains over its workers. Additionally, there exists a lot…