The origins of totalitarianism / by Hannah Arendt.

The origins of totalitarianism / by Hannah Arendt.

New edition with added prefaces.

9780156701532 (pbk.)
0156701537 (pbk.)

New York : Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

English

xliii, 527 pages ; 21 cm

JC481 .A62 2022

321.9 OCoLC

(OCoLC)1393265903

The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Hannah Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time, Nazi Germany and StalinistRussian, which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination." -- Back cover.

This edition originally published: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973; Original edition published: 1951.
Date from publisher history and printing register on t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-507) and index.

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