Free Essays on The Totalitarian Political Regime

  1. To What Extent Does the Nature of Youth Organization in Totalitarian Regimes Are Similar

    IB diploma Extended Essay Research question: To what extent does the nature of youth organization in totalitarian regimes---------The Hitler youth and Komsomol Sigmund Freud once said: “throughout an individual’s childhood and adolescence, external forces are shaping his or her mind.” The youth is...

  2. Using these four passages and your own knowledge, assess the view that the most important element in maintaining Hitler’s regime in power between 1933 and 1945 was the consent of the German people.

    the view that the most important element in maintaining Hitler’s regime in power between 1933 and 1945 was the consent of the German people. It is arguable that the most important element with regards to the maintenance of Hitler’s regime was the consent of the German people between 1933 and 1945. Other...

  3. Is Religious Fundamentalism Always Totalitarian and Prone to Violence?

    of secularism which the state was founded on. Before the emergence of the 'new Christian Right', religious groups had little or no influence over political decisions. (Heywood, 2003) This is a catch-all term used to describe various interconnected movements which aim to emphasise the role of religion...

  4. Power of Language

    language power. The history knows a lot of examples when political regimes recognize it and use this power for their goals. I think, that distinction is just in the ways how to use it, not what kind of political regime it is, democracy or totalitarian. The great example of language power we could...

  5. Governments, Rulers and People with Power

    class of people and a lower class. 2. What do you know about Germany under the Nazi regime? The Nazi regime was run by Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945. 3. Find the definitions of the following:- Totalitarian = of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing...

  6. thoughts

    A political institution is a system of politics and government. It is usually compared to the law system, economic system, cultural system, and other social systems. It is different from them, and can be generally defined on a spectrum from left, i.e. communism and socialism to the right, i.e. fascism...

  7. Peaceful Transition from Communism in East Central Europe

    Eastern and Central Europe lived under a brutal regime and they were kept in line by the ever-present threat of Soviet tanks. For over forty years these citizens of the Soviet Bloc of east central Europe were citizens of a totalitarian state - a ‘regime that aspired to total control, not only of all...

  8. Thr Relationship Between the Personal and the Po L

    has drawn a very pessimistic vision of the future; he means to warn the reader against the consequences of submitting to the oppression of the political regime. The world shown in 1984 is a projection of Orwell's imagination. It's invented through the power of language to act as a warning and to teach...

  9. Huhuuhu

    those of a group as a whole, of the people or nation. Everything had to put the regime in good light, including all art such as music, painting, poetry, fiction, architecture, and sculpture. Totalitarian regimes set about actively shaping ideas through the constant use of propaganda and by...

  10. concept of political development

    PYE, ASPECTS OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: THE CONCEPT OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, 1966 The scholar’s world is always closer to the world of newspaper headlines than either scholars or laymen realize. The increasing academic interest in the problems of the new states in the process of political development has...

  11. Modern Cuba

    regards to government policy. Through analysis of the five criteria for democracy, and scrutiny of systems theory, political scientists can see that Cuba is on the path to momentous political change due to its rapidly deteriorating, soviet modeled, communist government.  Before breaking down the components...

  12. v for vendetta

    name just within a few months after its release. The movie was set in the United Kingdom within a dystopian society (Whitaker and Dodds 45). The political themes present in the movie show us both sides view of V. The government viewed V as a cold-blooded murder and terrorist, but when dissecting V’s...

  13. 1984 Novel - Totalitarian Topics and Their Meanings

    a sentence that uses it correctly in relation to Orwell’s novel. Example: Totalitarian: Orwell’s novel shows how all totalitarian systems tend toward the destruction of individual freedom.   Totalitarianism | Political system based on absolute power of a single party or dictator | Orwell | The...

  14. Terror and Repression in Nazi Germany

    groups. In 1921 Adolph Hitler formed his own private army called Sturm Abteilung (Storm Section). The SA were instructed to disrupt the meetings of political opponents and to protect Hitler from revenge attacks. Hitler's storm troopers were often former members of the Freikorps (right-wing private armies...

  15. Political Freedom

    Political freedom is the absence of interference with the sovereignty of an individual by the use of coercion or aggression. Freedom is commonly known as a state of being free from government oppression. This is a definition of freedom which coincides with negative liberty and freedom can also be defined...

  16. Essay on Atwood's

    society ruled by the Regime of Gilead. The Handmaid’s Tale reveals how an oppressive society caters to an elite hierarchy, but it also reveals how the very structure of these societies can oppress the ones in control, as well as the oppressed. Atwood’s novel suggests that, in a totalitarian society, people...

  17. Emerging Liberalism and Socialism in Europe

    history and civilization for the following 150 years up in the middle of the 20th century. The French and Industrial Revolution not only changed the political and economic face of Europe dramatically, but also created “conflicts between the old traditional classes and the new emerging classes, namely the...

  18. Hitler

    Munich to seize power. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he dictated the first volume of his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting...

  19. The United States in Opposition

    But these distinctions were little noted in the political rhetoric of the century that followed, or in the forms of government fashioned in the likeness of this rhetoric, or in the goals of governments so fashioned. Men sought a constitutional regime which disestablished ancient privilege, guaranteed...

  20. Terrorism Is Curse

    attainment of political aims. Whether terrorism is utilized for or in opposition to an established governmental authority, it is intended to influence the attitudes and behaviors of a target group wider than the immediate casualties of those terrorist acts. Terrorism is employed by “political organizations...

  21. Personal Statement Example- Politics and International Relations

    for true democracy in their semi totalitarian regime. Reading George Orwell’s novels, ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’ first introduced me to the idea of how Politics can affect every aspect of an individual’s life. For example, look at Nazi Germany. What began as political ideology became a basis for a state...

  22. The Rise and Fall of the Middle Kingdom

    (Permanent Agriculture due to sophisticated techniques) (population was rural-villages) (around 500 BC, the new emperor regain political stability for the next milenia years with a tyrannical reign and established formal system of government that linked the villages to central provinces...

  23. The Role of Different Actors in Shaping the Transformation of 21st Century Authoritarian Regimes

    The role of different actors in shaping the transformation of 21st century authoritarian regimes “Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.” Plato Newspapers nowadays are full of news about...

  24. To What Extent Was National Socialism Fascist?

    of the regime and deep-rooted admirations of it from the German people at that time. The question is why this new view of the world was accepted by the Germans. Was it the originality, the innovative ideas or an illusion of social harmony that attracted them? When talking about fascist regimes in Europe...

  25. Did Napoleon Maintain the Aims of the Revolution?

    which was against the idea of equality and soon France was under the control of one man, which rememberd people to the hated feature of the Ancien Régime. Some people consider Napoleon as the sun of the revolution as he carried on the beneficial aspects of the French Revolution of 1789. Others see him...

  26. Thesis Paper Using the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and 1984 by George Orwell

    Orwell. Winston is an insignificant official in the party, the totalitarian regime that rules Oceana, the land that used to be England. Winston is technically a member of the ruling class, yet his life is still under oppressive political control. Citizens of Oceana are monitored by devices called telescreens...

  27. Winston Churchill and His Impact on Wwii

    CHST 504 Assignment One – Winston Churchill and his impact on International Relations The political life of Winston Churchill was as vast and varied as his life was long. There is little question that Sir Winston Churchill is one the most fascinating and iconic figures of the 20th Century. There...

  28. Liberalsim

    examining their endogenous political and economic arrangements' (Scott Burchill, Theories of International Relations, chapter 2-p31). This basically means that the foreign policy and trade agreements pursed by States can be explained by examining the individual States political and economic policies within...

  29. Political characteristics of Burma

    Political characteristics of Burma Abstract Burma, also called Myanmar,bounded on the west by Bangladesh;on the northwest by India’s Assam State;on the northeast by China’s Yunnan Province.It ‘s known as Burma until 1918. Since its establishment in 1990s, three comprehensive constitutions,...

  30. Political Correctness

     Political Correctness: What are the detrimental effects of political correctness on society? [Name] [Class] [Prof's name] [Date] Abstract This paper is on the detrimental effects of political correctness on society. It starts off by discussing where it emerged; elaborating on how...

  31. Animal Farm ~ Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

    discovery of new goods let the greed within him unleash. Progressively throughout the book, Animal Farm’s principle of animalism transforms into a totalitarian regime with “Comrade Napoleon” at its head. Each event has a twisting return to the tyranny and fascism at the start of the book. The only real change...

  32. Weds

    Economic Emerging markets Socio-Cultural -- Value systems, role models Technological -- Variety, performance, cost Political democratic, authoritarian/totalitarian regimes. Free market vs socialistic policies (Britain in early 1980’s) Legal and Regulatory -- liberalization (internal and external)...

  33. Aristotle Political Theories

    because of his political ties so he fled to the island of Euboea. He died soon after at his home in Chalcis, Euboea, 322 BC at the age of sixty-two years. In this research the discussion will be about Aristotle’s political theories about; polis, citizenship, classification of political regimes, revolution...

  34. Political Effects on French Revolution

    Political The political system that the Ancien Regime of the French Monarchy has structured has done well in the past. The French Monarch ruled by ‘divine right’: a monarch was considered to be God’s appointed representative on earth. Once the existence and nature of God were questions, such a social...

  35. Pussy Riot‘s performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was directed towards debate abIf music poses a threat to existing government, can state intervention ever be justified?

    Pussy Riot‘s performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was directed towards debate about political rights in Russia. The group explicitly referred to the Putin regime as ‘totalitarian-authoritarian’ (2012). If music poses a threat to existing government, can state intervention ever be justified...

  36. Democracy as Political Ideology

    (see Political ideologies), or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society. It also originated in the work of Karl Marx and its analysis remains a sign that such analysis is either Marxist or strongly influenced by Marxism. What is a political ideology...

  37. Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century

    faced large reform following the fighting were Germany, Italy, 

and Russia. The new regimes in these nations came to be referred to as ‘totalitarian’. 

The term was first used by Italy to describe the new fascist regime it had set up and 

came to be used in the thirties to describe the Nazis in Germany...

  38. Although People Tend to Accept the Social System in Which They Live, the Old Regime in France Contained Inequalities Which Sooner or Later, Had to Cause Conflict.

    socially and politically by The Ancient Regime. This regime consisted of social inequalities and a primitive privilege system. However these factors were not what caused conflict in the 1700’s, the conflicts were caused by numerous social, economic and political factors. The people of France were being...

  39. The Sum of All Anti-Jewish Actions Carried Out by the Nazi Regime

    The Holocaust is the sum of all anti-Jewish actions carried out by the Nazi regime. The German Jews were deprived of their legal and economic status. That was the starting point to the murders of close to six million of Jewz in Europe. The holocaust started when the Nazi’s came to power in German in...

  40. Animal Farm Analysis

    New Economic party. Because of differences, the two countries did not establish tactful relations until 1933. By that time, the totalitarian nature of Joseph Stalin's regime presented an insurmountable obstacle to friendly relations with the West. A few years later when George Orwell released his “Animal...

  41. Notes on Ap World History Unit6

    authoritarian governments * Socialism * Three schools of thought * J.M. Keens welfare capitalism * Authoritarian * Totalitarian * Keens capitalism * Taxation * Public spending * Well-judged interventions to stimulate the economy * Britain,...

  42. How Far Would You Agree That the October Revolution Was a Coup Rather Than a Popular Uprising

    revolution. 1 Having been created as a result of the revolutionary action of the workers and soldiers of Petrograd, the new government represented the political interests of the middle and upper classes. It was successful – in its few weeks of existence – in carrying through a series of democratic reforms...

  43. The Following Were Equally Important in the Nazi Consolidation of Power

    to help them in dominating all aspects of German society. Glieschaltung is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control over the individual and tight coordination over all aspects of society and commerce. The Nazis went to great lenghts...

  44. War Iraq

    issue. Many theories exist in which the war against Iraq is being explained and justified. Several elements are in the mix as oil, terrorism and totalitarian governments, as well the common thought, of hatred to the west and chaos ruling the region, among the American general public in regards to the...

  45. Religion and Politics

    Religion and Politics Orthodox Religiousness and Political Practicality Political decisions and actions in the present days are taken on the basis of legality and rationality. With the acceptation and exhibition of the strict authenticity of the rational reasons, the consequences of intuitive...

  46. The Genocide Convention: Effectiveness of Punitive and Interventional Measures

    ideological theories which highlight ‘the potential role of ideologies of racial or national or ethnic superiority in genocide, and certain forms of totalitarian centralized and terroristic governments’, a theory which appears particularly relevant with respect to the Jewish Holocaust. Gouldner (in Kuper...

  47. The Role of Oil in the International Political Economy

    October 2013 Social Science 295 The Role of Oil in the International Political Economy In the international spectrum, no single commodity, save perhaps the atomic bomb and other nuclear weapons, has held the economic and political importance that oil has held over the past one hundred years. Oil powers...

  48. “the World Would Be a Better Place If More Political Leaders Were Women”. What Is Your View?

    the American Journal of Political Science found that women are more effective lawmakers than men despite being underrepresented in all areas of politics. While men are generally more assertive in their actions and getting their point across, I firmly believe that female political leaders are just as competent...

  49. China and India Political and Economical Structures

    The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India: Comparing and Contrasting Political and Economic Structures I. Introduction: In a political perspective “The People’s Republic of China” and the “Republic of India” are from diverse dimensions in which China is mostly dominated by the...

  50. idaf

    participated in and influenced TWO of the following. (Group A 2010 Europe) The Renaissance The Reformation The French Revolution 5. Analyze the political and economic effects of changing population patterns in Western Europe in the period circa 1950 to the present. Cite specific examples from at least...

  51. Political Bias In The Media

     Political Bias In The Media Eric Louw (2005) asserts that, “Politics, governance, and identities [have been] altered due to the employment of new media technologies.” (p. 118) By that he means that media- including television- plays a major role in changing how audiences view politics...

  52. Similarities of the Brave New World and the Movie by George Orwell

    Bernard Marx. . Another interesting point is that both novel and the movie describe an idealized state and society, which have developed from past regimes such as monarchy, communism and capitalism. Both the main male characters deal with the similar internal conflict. A Brave New World is a novel about...

  53. A Just End?

    and Romania all outlawed capital punishment between 1987 and 1990. Throughout the former Communist countries, abolition of the death penalty was a political act far removed from the usual domain of criminal justice policy-making. Eliminating the death penalty was one of many ways the citizens of these...

  54. Matyás Rákosi Regime

    Two False Dawns (1945-1956) Matyás Rákosi Regime: Overview The years 1945 to 1956 were really harsh for the people of Hungary since a new leader came to power: Matyás Rákosi. Rákosi was a really hard and strict charismatic leader that was in charge of Hungary a big period of time in the middle’s...

  55. Animal Farm and Dystopic Literature

    Pan Zheng Fry Honors English 6 4 May 2012 Animal Farm Essay In its nascence, a new society that arises after overthrowing their former oppressive regime is the incorruptible ideal wherein each individual human share the same objectives of equality and freedom. However, the former goals of the revolution...

  56. To what extent was Ronald Reagan responsible for the end of the Cold War?

    from the Brezhnev Doctrine - this doctrine was introduced under Former General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and stated that the Soviet Union had the political right to intervene militarily in a socialist country in order to maintain order and keep it Socialist. Gorbachev’s distancing made it easy for Eastern...

  57. Article Political System

    because it’s simply not possible for so many crooks with conflicting agendas to loot the country together, almost as if in perfect unison. The Indian Political Philharmonic Orchestra must be the world’s most amazing cacophony of rogues, rascals and robbers. Luckily for the UPA, there was always Singh to...

  58. A Changing Power Equilibrium Between Actors: State, Private Sector and Civil Society?

    regions. As a result of these actions, transnational corporations have reviewed their strategy to the benefit of local populations. Its analsysis is political rather than economic and draws upon the field of conflict studies. Cases discussed in the paper focus on the extractive industry or trade in raw...

  59. Chapter 28: Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1973

    rlly knows who started the Cold War. But the confrontation b/w the U.S. and the Soviet Union came from their diff historical POVs as well as their political goals; they both wanted to expand their ways of life to the rest of the world. The Soviet Union didn’t want to give up the lands it got in Eastern...

  60. Escape from Reality

    society based on his past. Having lived through the regimes of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin, it seems acceptable that Orwell could dream of such a harsh reality. Overall, this novel can be seen as a warning against the quest for power due to the totalitarian nature of the party, the socially constricted setting...