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The historians who claim that these dictatorships were not totalitarian often reject or doubt the concept of totalitarianism itself. For example, Eric Hobsbawm, rejects the description of Stalinism as a totalitarian dictatorship because of its operation, although Stalin indeed wanted to achieve total control of the population, and this ...
According to Yale professor Juan José Linz there are three main types of political systems today: democracies, totalitarian regimes and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with hybrid regimes. [2] [3] Another modern classification system includes monarchies as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three. [4]
Former and current totalitarian states. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. Communist states (12 C, 39 P) F.
Modern political science catalogues three régimes of government: (i) the democratic, (ii) the authoritarian, and (iii) the totalitarian. [8] [9] Varying by political culture, the functional characteristics of the totalitarian régime of government are: political repression of all opposition (individual and collective); a cult of personality about The Leader; official economic interventionism ...
The United Nations estimated some 307,000 civilian dead in Syria by the end of 2022, with 12 million people -- more than half of the country's 2011 population of around 22 million -- forced from ...
The phenomenon soon spread to other countries with the military occupations driven by the militarist expansion of the Empire of Japan. After the end of World War II, Asian right-wing dictatorships took on a decidedly anti-communist role in the Cold War, with many being backed by the United States. List of Asian right-wing dictatorships
Country Local name Since Ruling party Ideology People's Republic of China [nb 1] Chinese: 中华人民共和国 Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó: 1 October 1949 () Communist Party of China: Socialism with Chinese characteristics Republic of Cuba: Spanish: República de Cuba: 1 January 1959 ()
Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia are often regarded as the most infamous examples of "totalitarian" systems. Some countries such as China and various fascist regimes have also been characterized as totalitarian, with some periods being depicted as more authoritarian, or totalitarian, than others.