Explain The Eight Criterias Of Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism took place in Europe in the 1930’s after the treaty of Versaille failed to provide peace after WWI,which caused Germany to grow resentful.This resulted beneficial to Germany,and actually helped give the rise to the era in dictators.Totalitarianism is a political system that has total control over the lives of individuals.It is also a country headed by one person and one person only,which is the dictator.Here,the states have the authority to control all aspects of the lives of whomever lives in their country causing people to have little rights,power,and even freedom.Due to this,eight criterias of totalitarian regimes were formed.These criterias are:indoctrination,propaganda,censorship,terror,charisma,one party rule,economic control and,extreme nationalism. Indoctrination is one characteristic for totalitarianism.Indoctrination is a way to get people to do whatever they are told to without any questions referring to the situation.This was crucial at the time because the government had to …show more content…
A quote that was used by Stalin was,‘‘Death solves all problems-no man,no problem.”This meant that the man would be the ones that are corrupting the world and would cause problems,and the only solution to this would be death.Mussolini also used terror as a way to threaten people that disagreed with him.The people that did not agree with him,were either severely tortured,sent to life prison or sentenced to be exiled for