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The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt ; with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.

by Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975, author.

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New York : Mariner Book Classics, 2024.

Totalitarianism.

9780063354487 (paperback) :

0063354489 (paperback) :

xviii, 557 pages ; 23 cm

Part I. Antisemitism: Preface to Part I -- Antisemitism as an outrage of common sense -- The Jews, the nation-state, and the birth of antisemitism -- The Jews and society -- The Dreyfus affair. part II. Imperialism: Preface to Part II -- The political emancipation of the bourgeoisie -- Race-thinking before racism -- Race and bureaucracy -- Continental imperialism : the pan-movements -- The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man. part III. Totalitarianism: Preface to Part III -- A classless society -- The totalitarian movement -- Totalitarianism in power -- Ideology and terror : a novel form of government.

"An essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history. It begins with the rise of antisemitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. This edition includes an introduction by Anne Applebaum--a leading voice on authoritarianism and Russian history--who fears that "once again, we are living in a world that Arendt would recognize." Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination."-- Publisher.

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