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Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism

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In the final volume of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in history: the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938.

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adult
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short · 196 pages

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