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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Totalitarian"”.
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The discursive structures of totalitarian ideology
… an alternative to the traditional discourses on totalitarian ideology. Findings of this research challenge the assumption that modern totalitarian system emerges in societies because their traditional cultures contain elements conducive to totalitarianism.</p>
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Inside the red box: North Korea's post-totalitarian politcs
… as some form of a highly centralized state: totalitarian, personalistic, or corporatist. By contrast, I argue that these monolithic ideal types fail to capture the institutional pluralism that helps distinguish the younger Kim’s rein from his father’s. While Kim Il Sung’s rule can be …
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After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010
<p>After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010 gives a coherent account of the English political novel after World War II, a critical narrative absent from current scholarship. I contend that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a touchstone for political …
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Castro's Cuba and Stroessner's Paraguay: A comparison of the totalitarian/authoritarian taxonomy.
… cases reflecting similarities and differences of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. This work tests the more general typology by studying the contrasting institutions, processes, and styles of the Castro and Stroessner autocracies, habitually labeled totalitarian and authoritarian, …
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Fashioning Women Under Totalitarian Regimes: "New Women" of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
… of Russian and German women's history under totalitarian systems by comparing women's fashioning by the state and their self-fashioning in Germany and Russia during the Third Reich and Bolshevik and Stalinist rule respectively. I argue that processes of women's fashioning and self-fashioning …
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Beyond totalitarian nostalgia: a critical urban reception study of historical drama on contemporary Chinese television
… drama goes beyond a literal, political sense of totalitarian nostalgia; it is characterised by an increasingly more liberal, diverse and indeed open-ended engagement with the historical drama text. Nevertheless, a critical re-evaluation of Maoist revolutionary classic literary works is manifested …
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Free press, torture and the way forward: one journalist's story of reporting in Ethiopia's totalitarian regime
<p>"This is a qualitative, ethnographic case study of the life of Adera Tessaye', a prominent Ethiopian journalist who fled political persecution in Ethiopia in 2008 and was granted refugee status in the U.S. in 2012. The goal of this thesis is to tell the story of Tessaye's life and consider it in …
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The politics of media and information in countries emerging from totalitarian regimes: the case of Romania
… designed imagery that fostered a dissimulated totalitarian propaganda. The last part of the project advances these contentions and considers them in turn, while trying to capture how the specifics of the case inscribe themselves in larger patterns of dominance and compliance.
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Shelter, Knowledge, Activism: A Refuge in the Canadian Forest for Political Exiles and Intellectual Dissidents of Totalitarian Regimes
… and the rights of those being persecuted by totalitarian powers for voicing their ideas and opinions. Beyond a remote village in Gatineau Park, the project proposes to burrow itself in the dense forests of the conservation park, removed from the eyes of the city and shrouded in the calming …
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Resistance through literature in Romania (1945-1989)
… and psychological survival within the Romanian totalitarian system maintained through oppression and arbitrary exercise of power, while prohibiting any manifestation of civil and political rights. Literary production, as a form of contesting the totalitarian regime in Romania, was one of the …
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Light From Behind the Iron Curtain: Anti-Collectivist Style in Edison Denisov's Quatre Pièces pour flûte et piano, With Three Recitals of Selected Works by Bach, Beaser, Carter, Fauré, Martin, Ibert, Liebermann, and Others
… doctrine as individual reaction to the totalitarian collective of the Soviet communist state of the twentieth century. Identification of eclectic compositional techniques, and how they represent individual expression under a totalitarian regime. Listing of Denisov's works with the flute …
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Limits of State Control in Economic Life
… in that country the roots of the present totalitarian government in which no man can call his soul his own* After the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Germany set herself to the task of recovery and, before many years had passed, there was set up in Germany a totalitarian state which …
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A Study of Centralization in the Thai Police Department.
… by those who live in a democratic society. In a totalitarian society, there is no freedom for the individual because the state has total control over man without limitations. Also, there is no individual movement in politics, economics, society, religion, or education under the realm of …
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The Eastern European crisis of self-knowledge (1948-1989) : the relationship between state and society as reflected in Eastern European film : a genre approach
… analyzes the dynamic relationship among the totalitarian state, society and cinema and their interplay in producing the crisis of self-knowledge that plagued Eastern European societies during Communism. The study is accomplished from an interdisciplinary and comparative point of view. Its …
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The Populist Dilemma: Frank Capra's Increasingly Unresolved Populist Films of the Depression Era
… concerns of the decade were joined by the totalitarian threats emerging in Europe.
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A Comedy for the Rich, a Tragedy for the Poor: Political Satire in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games
… has proved this to be a pervasive method for the totalitarian regime to monitor and diminish its masses as well as to enforce Panem’s dictatorship status. This essay is a literary analysis of Collins’s young adult novel, exploring social criticism as it is presented by the author and examining the …
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Underground literature: Reshaping gender and nation in British and Irish fiction, 1871-1935
… state, but for Britain’s fear of the rise of totalitarian politics. The fourth and final chapter reads Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871) alongside Land Under England (1935) by Irish author Joseph O’Neill, ultimately arguing that these works use the totalitarian potential of the …
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The Electoral Success of Communist-Successor Parties in the Czech Republic and Romania
… This project explores how the descendants of the totalitarian communist parties in the Czech Republic and Romania are influenced by each factor by analyzing election result data against these indicators. Party reimaging and coalition building are the most influential in determining voter turnout, …
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Persian miniature writing: An ethnography of Iranian organizations in Washington, D.C.
… and will in democratic as opposed to totalitarian terms, the sheer feasibility and affordability of becoming (instead of the existentialist concern with being) characterizes these organizations' mission to make American citizens (in their minds, i.e. democratic subjects). Instead of a …
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From British Nationality to Political Resistance: BN(O) Status and the Vision for a Hong Kong Crown Dependency
… into a tool of political resistance against a totalitarian party-state’s assault on Hong Kong. Through examination of the documents, the study discovered that under the British Nationality Act 1981 (UK), the British government took a racial demarcation policy and divided British nationality …
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