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by Hannah Arendt (Author)
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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Harcourt Publishers Ltd College Publishers; New Ed edition (1973)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0156701537
  • ISBN-13: 978-0156701532
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.6 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Explores the roots of totalitarianism and its culmination in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mandatory reading for any observer of European thought, 17 Mar 2001
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Arendt belongs to a class of scholars that only seem to appear intermittently throughout history. Her capacity for profound analysis is nowhere better displayed than in this volume. While scholarship has moved on, especially in connection with antisemitism and the social psychology of authoritarianism, her work on totalitarianism stands as one of the finest exegeses of its time. Her overriding concern to equate social progress with socialism and inter alia moral progress makes the book invaluable for those young people today who wonder what happened to faith in political ideologies. I first encountered this work over twenty years ago, and when I came across it again recently, it was still as magnetic and wonderfully refreshing as ever.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, 26 Feb 1999
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If you have a couple of months to spare and an interest not only in the Totalitarian regimes in the former Soviet Union and Germany, but also a desire to learn about antisemitism and imperialism then this is the book for you. If you just want to know about Totalitarianism, get the volume only containing that portion. This is an incredibly dense and comprehensive history that takes both patience and time to wade through. The journey is well worth it, though, as Hannah Arendt shows the incredibly destructive nature of all that makes one human under a totalitarian rule. It isn't a fun read, but definitely a rewarding one.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Relevance, 11 Aug 2007
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There is not one paragraph in this book, particularly in the chapters on imperialism and totalitarianism, that does not apply in some way to the woes of our world today. Thus it is essential reading for understanding the historical process of secrecy, militias, gulags, secret services, military insensitivity, lying governments, false scientfic evidence, media corruption, racism, manipulation, police state politics, demonstrations and ideologies. She warned; we have not listened. The apathy Arendt wrote about is indeed much worse. A great woman; a great thinker. The introduction by Pulizer prize winner Samantha Power (A Problem from Hell) is a bonus.
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