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3. The Unique Character of Totalitarian Society

  • Carl J. Friedrich
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Totalitarianism
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE v
  4. 1. Totalitarianism in the Modern World 17
  5. 2. Totalitarianism, Despotism, Dictatorship 39
  6. 3. The Unique Character of Totalitarian Society 47
  7. 4. Social Prophylaxis as a Form of Soviet Terror 60
  8. 5. The Totalitarian Mystique: Some Impressions of the Dynamics of Totalitarian Society 87
  9. 6. The Protestant Churches and Totalitarianism (Germany 1933-1945) 108
  10. 7. Totalitarianism as Political Religion 119
  11. 8. The Bolshevik Attitude Toward Science 141
  12. 9. Wholeness and Totality — A Psychiatric Contribution 156
  13. 10. Environmental Controls and the Impoverishment of Thought 171
  14. 11. Ideological Compliance as a Social-Psychological Process 203
  15. 12. Science under Soviet Totalitarianism 233
  16. 13. Phases of the Conflict Between Totalitarianism and Science 244
  17. 14. Totalitarianism and History 262
  18. 15. Totalitarian Appeal and Economic Reform 281
  19. 16. The Economy of the Soviet Zone of Germany 296
  20. 17. Cracks in the Monolith: Possibilities and Patterns of Disintegration in Totalitarian Systems 308
  21. 18. Totalitarianism and the Future 345
  22. 19. The World Revolutionary Situation 360
  23. Comments 381
  24. Preface vii
  25. The Problem of Totalitarianism — An Introduction 1
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674332621.c6

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE v
  4. 1. Totalitarianism in the Modern World 17
  5. 2. Totalitarianism, Despotism, Dictatorship 39
  6. 3. The Unique Character of Totalitarian Society 47
  7. 4. Social Prophylaxis as a Form of Soviet Terror 60
  8. 5. The Totalitarian Mystique: Some Impressions of the Dynamics of Totalitarian Society 87
  9. 6. The Protestant Churches and Totalitarianism (Germany 1933-1945) 108
  10. 7. Totalitarianism as Political Religion 119
  11. 8. The Bolshevik Attitude Toward Science 141
  12. 9. Wholeness and Totality — A Psychiatric Contribution 156
  13. 10. Environmental Controls and the Impoverishment of Thought 171
  14. 11. Ideological Compliance as a Social-Psychological Process 203
  15. 12. Science under Soviet Totalitarianism 233
  16. 13. Phases of the Conflict Between Totalitarianism and Science 244
  17. 14. Totalitarianism and History 262
  18. 15. Totalitarian Appeal and Economic Reform 281
  19. 16. The Economy of the Soviet Zone of Germany 296
  20. 17. Cracks in the Monolith: Possibilities and Patterns of Disintegration in Totalitarian Systems 308
  21. 18. Totalitarianism and the Future 345
  22. 19. The World Revolutionary Situation 360
  23. Comments 381
  24. Preface vii
  25. The Problem of Totalitarianism — An Introduction 1
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