Hannah Arendt

'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington Post Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination. 'A non-fiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four' The New York Times 'The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis and the 'banality of evil' has become a surprise bestseller' Guardian

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Emily McMeans

“In the thirties it became increasingly difficult to distinguish clearly between stateless refugees and normal resident aliens.”

“Totalitarian government always turned classes into masses, supplanted the party system, not by a one party dictatorship but by a mass movement, shifted the center of power from the army to the police, and established a foreign policy Openly directed towards world domination.”

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