Bibliograph

The origins of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt

Type

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The origins of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The origins of totalitarianism

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

769186150

Responsibility statement

Hannah Arendt

Series statement

Harvest book

Summary

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time-Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia-which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination

Table Of Contents

pt. 1. Antisemitism -- pt. 2. Imperialism -- pt. 3. Totalitarianism

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