A couple of things I’ve written on topics related to totalitarianism may be of interest to people in this class:
- Boring propaganda and the censor’s dilemma.
- What are single-party elections in North Korea for?
- Why was Hitler so popular and the Nazi party so unpopular? The Good Tsar bias.
- The progress of universal suffrage throughout the last two centuries (lots of graphs, not really on totalitarian regimes but related to the first week’s lecture).
And a few things from around the web:
- Peter Pomerantsev, who worked for Putin’s regime, explains how to avoid boring propaganda.
- China’s middle class dislikes red tape.
- “And the life of man, solitary, nasty, brutish, and short.”
- Turkey today: an authoritarian state?
- A political prisoner dies.
- Similarities between ISIS and the Bolsheviks.
Enjoy!
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