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Meanings of totalitarianism in English

Russian
тоталитарный режим
Portuguese
totalitarista
Spanish
movimiento totalitario
Catalan
totalitarisme
Wikidata

Political system in which the state holds total authority.

      Related terms
      тоталитарный режим
      Portuguese
      despotismo
      Catalan
      tirania
      Spanish
      despotismo

      A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

          despotismo
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          Usage of totalitarianism in English
          1
          Religion has influenced totalitarianism, and modern cults have been influenced by totalitarianism.
          The new yorker
          2
          Almost 50 years ago, we began a long struggle against aggressive totalitarianism.
          State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006)
          3
          War, totalitarianism and the politics of human oppression are major themes.
          The Irish Times
          4
          The Irish Times thought the move was another step towards totalitarianism.
          The Irish Times
          5
          This is not a matter of totalitarianism; it is a matter of language.
          A Wiccan Bible
          6
          The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism.
          Brave new world revisited
          7
          The world developed an appetite for bad news when totalitarianism threatened our freedoms.
          The Irish Times
          8
          This charge could come only from people with a propensity to admire totalitarianism.
          The Guardian
          9
          I confess to not realizing that Ayatollah Khomeini's regime oozed totalitarianism.
          Feminist dot com
          10
          His main target then was the evil of totalitarianism, wrote Williams.
          The Guardian
          11
          The only evil he sees is the well-known evil of totalitarianism.
          The new yorker
          12
          When he finds a new totalitarianism, he fights Communism with Communist-like violence and intolerance.
          The God That Failed
          13
          Atwood says theocracy is the form totalitarianism would likely take in the United States.
          Radio NZ
          14
          Even as we trade privacy for security and convenience, we're hardly headed toward totalitarianism.
          Wired
          15
          And it explains why there's such an inevitable quality about America's drift toward totalitarianism.
          The illuminatus! trilogy
          16
          It is not just Enlightenment that is the West, totalitarianism is also the West.
          The new yorker