TOTALITARIAN


Meaning of TOTALITARIAN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a totalitarian regime (= in which people are totally controlled by a government that is not elected )

Totalitarian regimes ban books they disapprove of.

a totalitarian state (= where there is no democracy )

Politicians get away with this sort of behaviour only in totalitarian states.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

government

It is for this reason that totalitarian governments , and even quasi-totalitarian governments, employ censorship.

regime

In this sense, most authoritarian or totalitarian regimes are nonconstitutional.

We have had the collapse of the totalitarian regimes .

In a totalitarian regime , the definition of res publica becomes total.

The classic study of the forces underlying totalitarian regimes .

A case study of political transition in one of the major totalitarian regimes .

state

Like everybody from factory workers to opera stars, writers were supposed to serve the totalitarian state and its purposes.

All organizations are subordinated to the totalitarian state .

Not the least power of a totalitarian state is the power to bore the people out of their right minds.

In the totalitarian state however, agriculture does not have quite the same result.

In the end a totalitarian state says that everything which exists belongs to it.

Politicians get away with this sort of behaviour only in totalitarian states .

The hierarchy feared the move as the thin end of the wedge of secularism and the totalitarian state .

system

Chapter 8 suggested that more than half the contemporary countries are authoritarian or totalitarian systems .

Religious fanaticism, like any totalitarian system , has its violent side.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a totalitarian government

A totalitarian state must maintain complete control of the press.

The country held its first elections after 40 years of totalitarian rule.

The minister called the secret police ``a product and a tool of the old totalitarian regime''.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All organizations are subordinated to the totalitarian state.

Not the least power of a totalitarian state is the power to bore the people out of their right minds.

Politicians get away with this sort of behaviour only in totalitarian states.

Religious fanaticism, like any totalitarian system, has its violent side.

The totalitarian political system demands complete obedience to its extensive rules regarding culture, economics, religion, and morality.

The ideological points are still there but it's hard to believe that totalitarian regimentation could be so tight.

The legislation can be seen as a by-product of these regimes attempts to create a mass, totalitarian basis of support.

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