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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.
Forlag Penguin Classics
Utgivelsesår 2017
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780241316757
EAN 9780241316757
Serie Penguin modern classics
Språk Engelsk
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Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketWhereas anti-Jewish sentiments were widespread among the educated classes of Europe throughout the nineteenth century, antisemitism as an ideology remained, with very few exceptions, the prerogative of crackpots in general and the lunatic fringe in particular.
Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals.
These figures are taken from Victor Kravchenko's book I Chose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official, New York, 2946, pp. 278 and 303. This is of course a highly questionable source. But since in the case of Soviet Russia er basically have nothing but questionable sources to resort to – meaning that we have to rely altogether on news stories, reports and evaluations of one kind or another – all we can do is use whatever information at least appears to have a high degree of probability. Some historians seem to think that the opposite method – namely, to use exclusively whatever material is furnished by the Russian government – is more reliable, but this is not the case. It is precisely the official material that is nothing but propaganda. [Fotnote 29]