1. Totalitarianism
Key Traits

2. 2. Completely authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial.
1. Form of government or state in which one political party or group maintains complete control under a dictatorship and bans all others.
2. Completely authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial.
Webster’s Dictionary

3. Key Traits 1. Ideology 2. State Control of Individual
3. Methods of Enforcement
4. Modern Technology
5. State Control of Society
6. Dictatorship
7. Dynamic Leader

4. Ideology Sets the goals of the state Glorifies aims of the state
Justifies government action

5. 2. State Control of Individual
Demands loyalty
Denies basic liberties
Expects personal sacrifice for the good of the state

6. 3. Methods of Enforcement
Police Terror
Censorship
Persecution

7. 4. Modern Technology Mass Communication to spread propaganda
Advanced military weapons

8. 5. State Control of Society
business, labor, housing, education, religion, arts,
personal life, youth groups

9. 6. Dictatorship and One-party rule
Exercises absolute authority
Dominates government

10. 7. Dynamic Leader Unites people Symbolizes government
Encourages popular support through force of will

11. Rise of Totalitarian Governments
Russia - Socialism and Communism
Vladimir Lenin (Bolsheviks)
Joseph Stalin (Communist Soviet Union)
Italy - Rise of Fascism in Italy
Benito Mussolini
Germany - Rise of the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler

12. Summary Types of Totalitarian governments.
Socialism - People and government together.
Communism - Form of socialism. Community owned.
Fascism - State over individual.
Nazi - Extreme nationalism, racism, and anti-Semitism

13. Totalitarianism Today
Many authoritarian regimes
Very few totalitarian governments
In 2000, 5 Totalitarian regimes
Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam

14. Questions
1. How does a totalitarian state attempt to make citizens obey its rules?
2. How would your life change if you lived in a totalitarian state?
3. What are the two reasons why totalitarianism was able to flourish?