Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems of disarmament cannot be separated from other basic goals of détente-those of overcoming the secretiveness and weakening the totalitarian nature of Soviet society. The Nixon-Brezhnev agreement [of 1972] limiting antimissile defenses and the Ford-Brezhnev agreement [of 1974] limiting offensive strategic weapons are important but in my opinion incomplete and even dangerous...
...sharp contrast, the managed economies exist mostly in one-party states or under completely totalitarian regimes. Any government that tries to dictate almost every decision on production, prices and wages assumes an arbitrary power that would be impossible to reconcile with political freedom. In most managed economies, for example, a strike by workers is a crime against the state; it can hardly be prohibited without suppressing the right to advocate such a strike...
...appearances, pledging his party's protection for "the Italian democratic system against ambushes of any sort." He regularly reviewed the ledger of Communist duplicity: "Twenty years ago in Hungary, seven years ago in Czechoslovakia, just three months ago in Portugal-a thousand promises on arrival, and then a totalitarian system...
...nearly three decades of totalitarian rule, the Korean Workers' Party (as the Communist Party is called) has eliminated all traces of political opposition and most private property. The state owns and operates all manufacturing and service enterprises, while peasants have been forced to surrender all but a tiny portion of their land to collective or state farms...
Writers also seem to have an inclination to assume a sense of mission (to preserve the national culture against totalitarian rule). Thomas Mann in his California villa remained the embodiment of German culture, resisting the barbarism of Goebbels and Co. Solzhenitsyn, though not published in Russia in the last ten years before he was expelled, still had a sense of speaking for the people, representing the national values against the neo-Stalinist pragmatism of Brezhnev. Similarly Czech writers, particularly Kundera. Vaculik and Kohout sensed the necessity to remain in their country. In touch with their people, even in this period...