totalitarian

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It was adopted two years after former Czechoslovakia had shed the totalitarian communist rule of four decades, and two years before it split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” her prescient novel of totalitarian dictatorship, began with the group hanging scene, which was shifted to the back of the book.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

Mass manufacturing backstopped American primacy in the 20th century; the U.S. outbuilt and outinnovated its totalitarian foes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

This exploitation was of course opportunistic in the extreme, but it also revealed something fundamental about totalitarian psychology.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025

He resettled in the United States in 1940, thereby avoiding any more serious consequences of challenging the totalitarian line.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall