Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separat
Anarchist protest with sign reading "just say no to authoritarian rule"
Honoring South Korean President Park Chung-hee in Army Parade at Armed Forces Day on 1 October 1973
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on 25 October 2019
Benito Mussolini, the founder of Italian fascism, called his regime the "Totalitarian State": "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition from political parties as well as outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state.
Two versions of the World War II U.S. propaganda poster "Your Lot in a Totalitarian State" depicting a process of compulsory sham election which took place in totalitarian states, the flags of which – Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Soviet Union – are presented below. In the version on the right, produced after Operation Barbarossa, the flag of the Soviet Union (Allied member) is replaced with that of the Empire of Japan (Axis member), which is not always regarded as totalitarian by Western scholars.
Anti-communist propaganda in West Germany (1953): "All ways of Marxism lead to Moscow! Therefore CDU".
1920 Soviet propaganda poster with a complimentary cartoon of Vladimir Lenin by Viktor Deni. According to 'traditionalist' historians, Lenin was the first politician to establish a totalitarian regime; such description have been opposed by the 'revisionists' and other authors.
A document from the collection of Henri Max Corwin, equating Nazism with Stalinism.