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Definition of Totalitarian
1. Noun. An adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government.
2. Adjective. Characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control. "A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"
3. Adjective. Of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life. "Operating in a totalistic fashion"
Definition of Totalitarian
1. Adjective. A system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially and politically. ¹
2. Noun. An advocate of totalitarianism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Totalitarian
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Totalitarian
Literary usage of Totalitarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America by Henry A Kissinger (1998)
"The Totalitarian Outcome. Because the Marxist-Leninist insurgents appeal to often
legitimate grievances, a popular school of thought holds that guerrilla ..."
2. The Rise of Nations in the Soviet Union: American Foreign Policy and the by Michael Mandelbaum (1991)
"Thanks to Gorbachev, not only is the Soviet totalitarian state disintegrating—a
fact that can only be welcomed—but it is doing so chaotically—a development ..."
3. Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine After Totalitarianism by Alexander J. Motyl (1993)
"... CHAPTER 4 Engaging a Post-totalitarian Russia Ukrainians have an overwhelming
preoccupation— Russia. It is their foremost foreign policy concern, ..."
4. Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe by Bertram David Wolfe, Robert Hessen (1990)
"... Totalitarian Semantics Every one who reads the Soviet press and satellite
press is perturbed by the extent to which it distorts the general human ..."
5. Opposition and Dissent in Contemporary China by Peter R. Moody (1977)
"nothing is—if only because it was under Mussolini's approving aegis that the term
totalitarian was coined. But there seems to be near-universal agreement ..."
6. Immigration and Nationality Act (1995) by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... (B) any other totalitarian party of the United States; (C) the Communist
Political Association; (D) the Communist or other totalitarian party of any ..."
7. Nation and Modernity: Reykjavík Lectures by Jóhann Páll Árnason (1996)
"In brief, the totalitarian phenomenon is a response to the fundamental ...
Different versions of totalitarian domination can be related to a common ..."
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