Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is the final volume of Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, which also includes the volumes on antisemitism and imperialism. Here she turns to the totalitarian state itself. She argues that history has produced only two genuine examples: the Bolshevik dictatorship after 1930 and the National Socialist dictatorship after 1938.

Arendt was a German-born Jewish political thinker who fled Nazi Germany. This book carries her analysis of how totalitarian rule differs from other forms of tyranny to its conclusion.