totalitarianism
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His parents’ experience living under totalitarianism shaped his outlook on the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
She was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2009 for fiction that chronicled the horrors of Ceaușescu’s totalitarianism, which lasted from 1965 to his overthrow and execution in 1989.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
If one does not appreciate the nature and importance of the squabble, Freidenberg maintained, one cannot really grasp how totalitarianism poisons every moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Whereas authoritarianism may leave society outside the political realm more or less intact, totalitarianism makes a total claim on civil society.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
I profoundly believe that the future of our world is not to be found in authoritarianism: that wears the mask of order, or totalitarianism that wears the mask of justice.
From State of the Union Address by Jimmy Carter
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