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…was going on in the world at this time, he addressed them with a very famous speech, "The Evil Empire". In this speech, he explained to them the many problems with Communism and totalitarianism. He asked them: Who would voluntarily chose not to have the right…

…' there was much totalitarianism in Spain, Germany and the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party had taken power in China. Governments were suppressing their people and controlling their freedom. Hence it is full of ideas reflecting this unrest, such as poverty, forced…

…to force the passage of new laws, such as racist laws, or the Nazi Party simply made its own policies or resolutions, or Hitler set up new Nazi governmental organizations that bypassed existing laws - and thus totalitarian government was established. For example…

…powerful. When Peter Brook produced it in 1951 the shadow of totalitarianism was very much upon us: Stalinism and the purges of the thirties, Hitler's Germany and the subsequent revelations of the Nuremberg trials. And now we have the rise of Islamic…

…a retaliatory effect. For example in a totalitarian regime, killing a police officer may be viewed by those that oppose the regime, as being a necessary act. To execute the perpetrator of this act may induce others with similar views to retaliate with like action…

…Lenin's 1923 Constitution. Stalin described the 1936 Constitution as ' the most democratic in the world' In reality the arrows should go downwards, because the USSR was a totalitarian dictatorship. Stalin's constitution looked impressive on paper as all over…

…. The pervasiveness of Communism was very wide spread during this time. Communism was all people knew; the state-planned economy was a non-competitive, corrupt totalitarianism way of life. By the 1980s, it was pretty obvious that communism in USSR was not really working…

…in favour of some sort of union with Germany, this being in order to restore Austria's status within Europe. On the death President Hindenburg in August 1934 Hitler became the Fuhrer. Hitler now moved to a 'Totalitarian State'. People came under police…

…at present Poland is a sovereign and democratic country whose institutions operate under the rule of law, there are still signs of the old systems in place, hence the possibility for it to have a totalitarian state that is hostile to collectivism and in which some…

…-leaning Marxist-Leninist government. Depicted as a totalitarian regime, the Sandinistas were possibly more supported by the poor and the working class than any other revolutionary group in history. They created some of the most successful social problems ever…