It means exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others. Synonyms are authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, or tyrannical.
Communist and fascist governments are considered to be totalitarian ( exhibiting Supreme control over one's populace) under the standard definition dictatorships can also be included. Also any government not by nature totalitarian can still be said to be totalitarian due to oppression and bending the governmental laws to a totalitarian like system.
was francisco franco totalitarian
No they are only totalitarian in extreme cases.
Hitler - totalitarian, authoritarian, nationalist. Stalin - totalitarian, authoritarian.
who is the leader in a totalitarian state and how did they get thrie power?
A totalitarian dictator does anything he wants to do. There is no check or balance in that sort of government.
Adolf Hitler was the totalitarian dictator of Germany from 1933-1945.
The United States has never had a totalitarian communist dictator.
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes was created in 2007.
'The Handmaid's Tale' is a novel. The government described in the novel is definitely Totalitarian.
A totalitarian government has complete control over its people.
What are the pros? It's totally got everything, brah! Hence, totalitarian.