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Totalitarianism
- TotalitarianismTotalitarianism is a word that began as an insult, became a battle cry, and ended up contested by the very scholars who once wielded it most confidently.
- Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary near the German border. He died by suicide on the 30th of April…
- Khmer RougeThe Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh on the 17th of April 1975, and within hours the city's residents were told to leave.
- Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini was named after a Mexican president. His father, a blacksmith and a socialist, chose the name Benito for the liberal Mexican leader Benito…
- Italian fascismItalian fascism named itself after a bundle of sticks. The Latin word fasces described a rod-and-axe arrangement carried by magistrates' attendants in…
- TalibanIn August 2021, the Taliban occupied the Presidential Palace in Kabul after incumbent President Ashraf Ghani fled to the United Arab Emirates.
- Axis powersThe Axis powers launched the deadliest conflict in human history, and they did it with far less unity than their opponents ever imagined.
- Communist stateA communist state has never officially called itself a communist state. This is one of the first and most disorienting facts about a form of government that…
- HirohitoHirohito reigned over Japan for 63 years, from 1926 until his death in 1989, the longest reign of any emperor in Japanese history.
- NazismNazism, formally named National Socialism, began its public life as a name its own followers found embarrassing. In the 1920s, opponents in the German labour…