TOTALITARIANISMS/ THE CLOSED SOCIETY AND ITS FRIENDS.

It is striking that the main political concept coined by the century of democracy has been totalitarianism. Since its birth in fasci st Italy in the 1920s, the term has made a long journey throughout different countries and periods. After representing the fascinati on for dictatorships during the interwar years, totalitarianism became a key concept of the war of words waged between democracy and communism until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a hot word for a Cold War, as termed by the author of this book to convey the i mportanc...[Read more]