Totalitarianism

Joseph Stalin became the Soviet leader through a process. He was given his initial power by Lenin at his death. However, Lenin wanted Leon Trotsky to rule the Soviet Union. Stalin hid this fact. He then allied other leaders and isolated his main enemy, Leon Trotsky. He eventually succeeded in having Trotsky expelled from the party (and later the entire country), He then repeated the process to eliminate all threats until he was made the absolute ruller of the Soviet Union.

By using police terror, destroying enemies of Stalin, monitoring telephone lines, reading mail, and planting informants.

Dictators were able to rise to power easily during the 1930s because of the recent World War and a world-wide depression. Many people were seeking economic stability, a surplus of food, a strong leader to help them, and some national pride. This is just what dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Tojo offered.

Japan was hit hard by the Great Depression and fell into a deep economic crisis. They had a severe lack of money, food, and other imported supplies. Unable to solve their problems, they turned to a military dictatorship in 1932.

because the ctar was an aweful person

Germany was poor after ww1 so he blamed the jews

In the sense that it is ruled by one person or group of people who do not answer to the population and recognise no limits to their authority.

The Korean people can vote for their rulers but as no opposition is allowed to the ruling party they have no other choice.

The first totalitarian state was Italy, which was created by Mussolini.

Hitler was a dictator, he wanted the throne to be only his. while Stalin wanted Russia to be a democratic country.

anti-semitism
racial controls
anti-communism

Absolutely. One of the main points of Leninism is that revolution could be achieved only by a small group of professional revolutionaries as opposed to the populace in general. Thus, once he and his Bolsheviks did take over the country, they had to maintain their gains by the same method. All other political parties were abolished, all people disagreeing with his policies were branded counter-revolutionaries and eliminated and only Bolsheviks Party member were allowed to work in key government and industrial positions.

In that time Italy was a new, rear, unmanageable nation, people was ignorant and unripe for the democracy, Mussolini was charismatic and determined, the military regime created in the people a great sense of belongings to the nation and Italians saw in him a great leader, but it was forced (or perhaps it was a choice crowds) to a most unfortunate war.

A fascist dictatorship.

In a democratic government, citizens have a say when it comes to how the country is run. In a totalitarian regime, the country is ruled by a very tiny group of elite citizens (usually military generals and industrialists). In a democratic regime, people have more control over their lives. However, in a totalitarian regime, the government will try to control the lives of its citizens as much as possible.

Russia has never really been anything other than a totalitarian country until the fall of communism in 1990, and even now, Vladimir Putin is somewhat dictatorial for an elected President. If we go back in history we would find that the first unified government of Russia was that of Gengis Khan's Mongolian empire (specifically, it fell under the branch known as the Golden Horde); subsequently Russia was conquered by the Norse who founded the Russian monarchy which lasted until the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917; all three of these forms of government were totalitarian. Any ruler powerful enough to establish a totalitarian state is likely to do so; people do not make concessions and weaken their own power unless forced to do so. Egocentric rulers always prefer absolute control, rather than having to make compromises and having to persuade people of the wisdom of their decisions (which often are not very wise anyway). However, there was a specific cause relating to the most extreme totalitarianism which Russia adopted in 1917, and that was WW I. The population of Russia was quite unhappy about the high cost to Russia of its alliance to France and England, which hardly seemed to justify the many deaths of Russian soldiers, and the Bolshevik Revolution was therefore primarily a pacifistic revolution, promising to take Russia out of the war as well as to remedy various other injustices resulting from the class sytem and the disparities of wealth and power which existed at that time. The Russian public did not know that the new injustices which would be inflicted by the communist party would be tremendously worse than the old ones which communism remedied. So, idealism fueled the adoption of a totalitarian system which promised everything and delivered very little.

A dictator.

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Joseph Stalin was the "totalitarian" leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin, however he did not have dictatorial powers immediately after Lenin's death in 1924. It took Stalin until the mid 1930's before he had eliminated almost all of his equals in the Communist Party and installed people loyal to him personally in positions of power. Once he had done that he became the totalitarian leader that history remembers him as.

Both are authoritarian governments, but fascism focuses more on aggressive expansion.

Joseph Stalin

Historical examples of Totalitarian dictators and totalitarianism include Adolf Hitler of Germany, Joseph Stalin of Russia/Soviet Union. (It is known as the Soviet Union under communism) Another example is Mao from China and Benito Mussolini of Italy. Saddam Hussein can also be an example of a totalitarian dictator. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini show up during the uprising of World War II. Examples/Characteristics of a totalitarianism regime are that the government is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. Also, totalitarian dictators tend to have a "cult of personality and where the leader usually rules with fear.

Dictators will always do the following:

1) CONTROL THE PRESS (MEDIA): They don't want the people to know what is going on outside their borders, and the people get the government's spin on all matters. Control the press (and media), control the minds of the people.

2) SEIZE THE INTELLIGENCIA: The intellectually elite will share ideas, and dictatorships hate a thinking people.

3) SECRET POLICE: The Secret Police are the key to a dictatorship. They are the ones who keep the local people affraid, who will cultivate the neighborhood spies who report on those speaking out against the government. The Secret Police will then make a show of arresting the subversive, which will make others think twice about speaking out aganist the government.

4) MILITARY BUY IN: Without the "Buy In" of the Military, a dictatorship is doomed. The dictator must keep them happy and make sure they will enforce then dictator's policies, as well as brutally put down any revolts. The Military can't have a consious, but follwo their leadership's orders.

Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a concept used to describe political systems where a state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life..Democracy is a form of government in which power is held by people under a free electoral system.

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