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...Charles F. Delzell Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism . By Whitfield Stephen J. . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1980 . Pp. xii , 338 . $18.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 BOOKS Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism...

...Warren Lerner The Politics of Totalitarianism: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1934 to the Present . By Armstrong John A. . New York : Random House , 1961 . Pp. xvi , 459 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 BOOKS The Politics...

...Calvin B. Hoover Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXVI JULY, 1937 Number 3 FINANCING ARMAMENT IN THE TOTALITARIAN STATE CALVIN B. HOOVER WITH RESPECT to your interest in Hitler, you must realize that you are concerning yourself about a man who...

... understandings of the concept of freedom of conscience: an early modern preoccupation with religious plurality as threatening public order, and a postwar understanding of religious freedom as the protection of secularized Christian values against the totalitarian propensities of modern politics. © 2014 Duke...

... collective Vitrina Dystópica's archive of dialogues, interviews, and interventions, this article proposes an analytical exercise that seeks to challenge the ongoing totalitarian coup of the political imagination. This exploration of the memory of struggles allows for gathering techniques, strategies...

... developed since 1917, the beginning of a new era, Soviet foreign policy shows a series of fundamental differences. First, Soviet foreign policy is imbued with a fundamental expansionism which is ideologically determined; this was foreign to Czarist Russia. Second, it exhibits totalitarian traits which...

..., in Spain, in Portugal, in a pale sort of way in Vichy France, and in other countries. In all these cases, the revolution has been wholly or mainly totalitarian, though in Spain, Portugal, and Russia it began by being democratic; in China its totalitarianism has been a matter of military necessity...

... or indirectly, against totalitarianism andfor democratic Socialism, as I understand it. 1 These two objectives of Orwell s serious work were connected in a real and frightening way for him. He believed that totali­ tarianism and democratic socialism were the only two alternatives for human society. His final...

... forms of sociality. It’s no accident that Hannah Arendt ended her magisterial The Origins of Totalitarianism with a discussion of terror and ideology that pivots on the feelings of loneliness. In this discussion, she makes clear that totali- tarianism, which relies on creating new...

... . Serge Victor . [1946] 2012 . Memoirs of a Revolutionary . Translated by Sedgwick Peter . New York : New York Review of Books . Traverso Enzo . 2015 . Il totalitarismo: Storia di un dibattito (Totalitarianism: History of a Debate) . Verona : Ombre Corte . Trotsky Leon...

...Robert S. Rankin Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THE ROOTS OF THE TREE OF LIBERTY ROBERT S. RANKIN THE AMERICAN form of government is being threatened both without and within without by the totalitarian states, where participation of citizens in the government and individual...

.... In Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben suggests that the fact is that one and the same affirmation of bare life leads, in bourgeois democracy, to a primacy of the private over the public and of individual liberties over collective obligations and yet becomes, in totalitarian states...

... as that which explains the failure of so-called proletarian fiction during the thirties. Imaginative literature is not concerned primarily with combating foci of ideological infection, the plague of dangerous political ideas, the menace of totalitarianism; it is an expression of sensibility and vision, of felt...

... superiority of the democracies over totalitarianism. Their conviction was that the oppressed populations would offer resistance up to active revolt against any attempt of their governments to involve them in war, and that lack of democratic control as well as crude compulsion must necessarily result...

.... Whitfield s initial chapter traces the evolution of the controversial term, totalitarianism. He follows this with a concise analysis of the similarities and differences between the theory and practice of totali­ tarianism in Nazi Germany and in Stalinist Russia. He is quick to point out that Arendt...

... of this year the Fascists seemed to be growing considerably in power and popularity. This faction, while really more noisy than numerous, had its centurions, its ballila, and its blackshirts. Its leader, Nino Rezzonico, who aspired to be the duce of a totalitarian Switzerland, felt the time was ripe...

...John Middleton Murry Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXVIII OCTOBER, 1939 Number 4 THE POLITICS OF REPENTANCE* JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY FOR THE TOTALITARIAN systems there is no such thing as a society of nations. No doubt the society of nations...

... ancient political culture, the question of the left and the right caused confusion in certain periods, it is easy to imagine what kind of mix of conceptions may predominate in our Russian minds after the totalitarian experiment conducted on us. By definition, a totalitarian regime can be neither right nor...

... are in contradiction to the ethics of Christianity. And just as the practicing Christian is a rarity, so is the true liberal. He is doomed to be a lonely figure. This condition largely explains the fact that so many would-be liberals have anchored their hopes in totalitarian Russia. Discouraged by the malignant forces...

... the peninsula fourteen years later as he nationalized big business. He drew ex-radicals and ex-diehards to his fascist standard, as had Bonaparte, who utilized Fouche and the Bourbon emigres side by side. His totalitarian policies reflected those of Cromwell and the Corsi­ can; his traditional nationalism knew...