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…that grant sweeping powers to the legislature or executive. Absolutism has taken wide-ranging forms such as military dictatorships in Latin America, totalitarian communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe, and dictatorships in Africa. Despite the wide range of forms…

…, played by Jonathan Pryce, is a small time man, lost, and ignored, in a totalitarian and immense government. His only escape from his bleak world is through his small apartment and his dreams. Sam’s dreams, which his sanity relies on, hold major themes…

…, and overall, restoring the strong economy that had previously belonged to Germany; one that had been seriously affected after the Versailles Peace Treaty and the Great Depression. This economic recovery could only come about as a result of the totalitarian regime…

…enough power by their trust that this leader soon becomes a dictator. George Orwell's 1984 Orwell envisions a world devastated by war and poverty, where the West has fallen under the spell of a totalitarian socialist dictator, Big Brother. A political…

…with the Nazis, including church leaders, were either silenced or forced to leave the country. The German people were subjected to a constant barrage of propaganda designed to convince them that Jews were evil. In Hitler's totalitarian state no argument or refutation…

…emperors and all but one died a violent death. Another emperor that did ok was Dioclesian who established a totalitarian government where the government controlled every aspect of life. And the last decent empire was Constantine who stopped the persecutions…

…and establish a totalitarian state in France. Due to his cowardice, however, the opportunity passed and Boulangerism fizzled out with his suicide, on his lover's grave, in 1891. The incident showed the tenuous hold that the Government had in France. The right had…

…to the conventional career a young man of his gifts might have followed (Zehr 1). He had much sympathy for humanity, and wrote two great novels that attacked totalitarianism. 1 2 The novel, Animal Farm, put the problems of caste division outside a human setting (Fores…

…will attempt to outline Winston Smith’s progression form a neurotic, paranoid man, to a man who protests against a quasi-utopian society and a totalitarian government. Even at the beginning of the novel, Winston does not want to sacrifice his freedom for the Party…

…such a large role undermined the fascist 'totalitarian' system. The catholic youth movements provided an alternative to the ONB and there was a significant religious revival in the 1930s. The Church was effectively a alternative and rival to fascism it undermined…