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Totalitarian ideologies

  • FascismThe word fascism originates from the Italian term fascio, meaning bundle of sticks. This concept traces back to ancient Rome where a fasces was a bundle of…
  • Italian fascismIn 1915, Benito Mussolini founded the Fasces of Revolutionary Action in Italy. This group emerged from a synthesis of ultranationalism and national…
  • Marxism–LeninismA poster from 1936 in the Soviet Union declared "Raise the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin!" This image captured a moment when four distinct…
  • NazismThe word Nazi began as a derogatory nickname for a backward farmer or peasant in Bavaria. It was a hypocorism, or pet name, derived from the German male name…