Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Foreword to the Revised Edition......Page 8
Preface to the First Editon......Page 12
Contents......Page 16
1. Autocracy and the Problem of the State......Page 20
2. The General Characteristics of Totalitarian Dictatorship......Page 32
3. The Dictator......Page 48
4. The Nature and Role of the Party......Page 62
5. Youth and the Future of the Party......Page 77
6. The Problem of Succession......Page 87
7. The Nature of Total Ideology Its Symbols and Myths......Page 102
8. The Historical Roots of Totalitarian Ideology......Page 115
9. The Change and Corruption of Ideology......Page 124
10. The Constitution, the Law, and Justice......Page 133
11. Propaganda and the Monopoly of Mass Communications......Page 146
12. Education as Indoctrination and Training......Page 165
13. The Terror and the Passion for Unanimity......Page 178
14. The Secret Police and the People's Enemies......Page 189
15. Purges, Confessions, and Camps......Page 200
16. Totalitarian Bureaucratization......Page 222
17. Plans and Planning......Page 236
18. The Battle for Production and Industrial Expansion......Page 247
19. Labor Bond or Free......Page 262
20. Agriculture Organizing the Peasantry......Page 277
21. The General Problem of Resistance......Page 296
22. The Family......Page 307
23. The Churches......Page 316
24. The Universities and the Technicians......Page 333
25. Literature and the Arts (by Gail W. Lapidus)......Page 346
26. The Military Establishment......Page 360
27. The Foreign Policy of Expansion......Page 370
28. The Stages of Development and the Future......Page 384
Some Bibliographical Notes......Page 398
Bibliographical References......Page 406
Index of Authors Cited......Page 440
Index......Page 444