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
“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
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
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