0 of or being a political system in which those in power have complete control and do not allow people freedom to oppose them: --
1 of or relating to a government that has almost complete control over the lives of its citizens and does not permit political opposition --
And how might a totalitarian state differ from a democracy?
And it was especially as a new form of political religion, he argued, that the three interwar regimes were in fact totalitarian.
Conversely, to play up the state at the expense of the party could be radical or totalitarian.
But there are alternatives to such a univocal totalitarian world.
No one betrayed the secret, no one turned informant; solidarity triumphed over totalitarian authority.
Fundamentally the totalitarian regime did not change, only its methods changed.
Conversely, those downplaying the ongoing role of the party were not necessarily less radical or totalitarian.
The basic mechanisms linking the scientific and political systems apply as well to democratic as to authoritarian or totalitarian systems.
