totalitarian

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One of the dark ideas of the novel is that the aristocracy’s moral and spiritual bankruptcy left them helpless in the face of Europe’s rising totalitarian ideologies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

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

It would also relieve the immigration system so it can focus on applicants from other countries who weren’t living under totalitarian rule.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy,” Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

But what they didn’t say was that prison was also a microcosm of a totalitarian society, a nearly pure example of the police state.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover