totalitarianism
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The most moving passages in the diaries chronicle her life during the 900-day German siege of Leningrad, which subjected those who remained in the city to the evils of both totalitarianisms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
It really is what I told you at first: how do totalitarianisms fall apart.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2019
That aspiration--along with Poland's short-lived autonomy--was dashed when Germany invaded in 1939 and Wojtyla was plunged into a firsthand study of successive totalitarianisms.
From Time Magazine Archive
WHY is it that totalitarianisms arouse our deepest hostility?
From Time Magazine Archive
With no countervailing American force to contain the rise of the monstrous totalitarianisms of the '30s, the way was cleared for World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
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