Totalitarianism by Helena Zimpel https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3 en-us 2017-05-05 09:09:25 UTC 2026-03-16 03:02:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Preconditions and Goals https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/170749124 Preconditions:
- charismatic leader
- modern developments in communication and transportation

Goals:
- conquest
-  to exclude all others
- industrialization
This goal spawns an ideology that explains everything in terms of the goal, rationalizing everything.]]> 2017-05-09 13:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/170749124 https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/170749666 2017-05-09 13:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/170749666 Characteristics & Examples https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/170751751 Characteristics:
- ruled by a single party
- controls all aspects of individual life through suppression

--> total control over 
- military
- communication
(newspaper, propaganda, etc.)
- police control with the use of terror as a control tactic
- economy
-authority of the government 

Examples: 
- Maurya dynasty of India (c.321-c.185 BC)
- Zulu chief Shaka (c.1816-28)
- Adolf Hitler/Nazi Germany (1933-45)
- Joseph Stalin/Soviet Union (1924-53)]]> 2017-05-09 13:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/170751751 Development of totalitarianism https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/170752039 - traditional social institutions and organizations are discouraged and suppressed 
- the social fabric is weakened
- people become more amenable to absorption into a single, unified movement
- participation in approved puplic organizations is at first encouraged and then required 
- old religious and social ties are being replaced by artificial ties to the state and its ideology]]> 2017-05-09 13:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/170752039 Consequences https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/171180319 - large-scale, organized violence 
- overriding commitment to the state ideology and pursuit of the state's goal
-  people were pursuited and extincted --> were blamed for the state's troubles--> public opinion was aroused against them--> violence by military and police is condoned 

- no freedom
- no ability to express your mind 
- surveillance
-  censorship 
- dictatorship 
- propaganda 
- less education
]]> 2017-05-11 07:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/171180319 Definition helenasarahzimpel https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/171186386 - a government which is autocratic (authority, control alone)
- absolute and oppressive single-party government
- a system of government that is centralised and dictatorial 
- no individual freedom]]> 2017-05-11 08:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/helenasarahzimpel/q007pqqgv5x3/wish/171186386