Totalitarianism - a system of political power, in which the state with the help of law enforcement agencies establish total control over all aspects of society.It differs from authoritarianism - other non-democratic regime - that is trying to penetrate the thoughts, privacy and even the beliefs of each person.He even tries to force to regulate family life of citizens and establishes a system of total surveillance.
on the territory of the former Soviet Union are still found among the citizens nostalgic for the days of Stalin's suffering and longing for a "firm hand."They are opposed by those with opposing views, claiming that totalitarianism - is Stalinism.They cite in favor of his theory of the following arguments: in Stalin's empire dominated the official ideology of "Marxism-Leninism", which should have been shared by all citizens.Fidelity to this outlook were to show everything and everywhere - for example, references to the great accomplishments of socialist economic management had preceded even apolitical scientific works on mathematics.
second argument that totalitarianism - is Stalinism, is that in the Soviet Union of that period has been set police control, and the total.From kindergarten develop a sense that the whole country is living surrounded by enemies, both external - imperialist "countries kaplagerya" and internal - saboteurs who sabotage.This "enemy of the people" could be any citizen, and the majority of the population feared special representatives omnipotent power structure - the Cheka, the NKVD, later KGB.
in favor of that totalitarianism - is Stalinism shows and one-party system of government.The Communist Party of ideological absolutism produces - just "deviationism" brutally persecuted.All organizations, the media and education are subject to the prevailing party.All citizens are deprived of the right to dissent.The economy is fully regulated by the state, any private enterprise is perceived as an encroachment on the unregulated power generating income.Large-scale slave labor (Gulag).
So in what ranks as nostalgic our some of our seniors?If it was so bad, then why is such a sentiment to the image of "friend of all athletes" and "father of the peoples" Stalin?Yes, the Soviet Union of the 1930s was a totalitarian regime, but at a later period it was impossible for so called.Later the Soviet system rather fall under the description of authoritarianism.These two systems are undemocratic government - authoritarianism and totalitarianism - have much in common, but one very important difference.The first order does not seek to penetrate and establish control over all spheres of public life, limited political and spiritual-ideological.
authoritarianism When there is a whole layer of the population that feels at this comfortable and safe mode - the workers of large cities in the USSR, the middle class under General de Gaulle in France, the big industrialists under Pinochet.Under totalitarianism in security does not feel nobody, except the ruling elite.The history of the twentieth century is replete with such special regimes.He was born the term "totalitarianism" in Mussolini's Italy, but found its extreme expression a bit later - in the Nazi Third Reich, Hitler's ideology of the Khmer Rouge, Maoism, Turkmenistan under Turkmenbashi and the ideology of "Juche" in North Korea
