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

“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

"I was living and working on the frontier between the totalitarian world and the West," he observed, "seeing both sides, and constantly angered by the contrast between the two."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau