totalitarianism

Bernard Marx becomes a citizen in an utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, and presents the social climate in 1958, and the threats against personal freedoms that seemed to be precursers to the novel's empty civilization.

An investigation of financial, political, and media power in the United States, looking at what the author sees as a complete transfer of control in the first decade of the twenty-first century from a democracy to the self-interested elite.

Depicts life in a totalitarian regime in the year of 1984.

After an act of viral terrorism eliminates half of the United States, a new government controls the remaining populace with a brutal police force, an implant that monitors everything people say, and other tactics; when Harper Adams joins the underground resistance, she is quickly found to possess a dangerous power that could help their cause or destroy them all.

Examines issues spanning 150 years in Russian and Soviet history, analyzing questions and presenting excerpts from sources on ideologies and regimes, political parties, repression and terror, agriculture and industry, the social classes, war, and other topics.

Presents thirteen essays by historians and sociologists on the leadership cults, war machines, and successor societies of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia.

Analyzes the meaning and impact of the "Great Terror" that took place in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, a period presided over by Stalin and characterized by the arrests and executions of people ranging from high Communist Party officials to ordinary citizens.

Offers a comparative history of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, describing the private and public lives of Hitler and Stalin, their ascents to power, the ways they dominated politics, culture, and economy, and each regime's lasting, violent legacy.

"After sheltering an injured boy from a typhoon, gifted ecology student Shion finds his life thrown into chaos as he begins to discover the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6, the computerized metropolis he calls home"--OCLC.

Offers an interpretive comparison of the economics, propaganda, culture, education and healthcare systems of all three forms of European totalitarianism.