Totalitarisme - article ; n°1 ; vol.47, pg 4-23

Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1995 - Volume 47 - Numéro 1 - Pages 4-23
Totalitarianism, Krzysztof Pomian.
Italian Fascism, German Nazism and Russian Bolshevism, considered as ideologies, mass movements and Systems of power under Mussolini, Hitler and Lenin-cum-Stalin, were original political phenomena with features unknown to the classical theories of dictatorship. Despite all differences, they had also significant similarities with far reaching historical effects. They may therefore legitimately be considered as three different manifestations of a single category, totalitarianism. This word was not a product of the Cold War — it results from the attempts made during the interwar period, to find a new name for a new political phenomenon.
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