Totalitarianism
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"...Totalitarianism is a product of the modern world. As described by a number of scholars, it features political movements and regimes with utopian ideologies –ideologies that are often, in large part, pseudo-religious and pseudo-scientific..."
Key Terms
- Hannah Arendt - The Origin of Totalitarianism
- Anti-Semitism & the Holocaust
- Marxist-Leninist Ideology
- Kulaks
- Show Trials
- Gulags
- The Holodomor
- Propaganda
- "Cult of Personality"
- Secret Police
- Totalitarianism in Theory (Note: understand the basic argument, not the details)
- Erich Voegelin - "Immanentize the Eschaton"
- Utopia
- Utopia
- Zygmunt Bauman - Modernity and the Holocaust
- Francois Furet
- Michael Burleigh
- Erich Voegelin - "Immanentize the Eschaton"
- Totalitarianism in Fiction
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
- George Orwell - 1) Animal Farm & 2) 1984
- Totalitarianism in Practice
- Cultural Revolution
- Mao Zedong (Tse-tung)
Guided Viewing Questions
- What were the primary similarities and differences between Nazism and Communism?
- What are some of main characteristics that political theorists attribute to totalitarian governments?
- How has totalitarianism been portrayed in fiction?
- In what ways was China under Mao and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge totalitarian governments?
- What governments and movements today might still warrant the term totalitarian?