Word: totalitarianism
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...It’s very difficult for us [to get women to run for office] because of our culture and the totalitarian regime,” she said...
...sincere hope is that your readers will be inspired to learn more, become active, and speak out about the situation of the Cuban people who continue to endure incredible injustices which have taken place for over four decades under the totalitarian dictatorship under Fidel Castro...
...minister Joseph Goebbels, Stalin understood how to use images to mold public opinion. "It was mass marketing," says Boris Groys, co-curator of Dream Factory Communism - the Visual Culture of the Stalin Era, at the Schirn through early January. "The difference was that Stalin's was conducted by a totalitarian state and used to promote a single product - communist ideology." The show's 200 paintings, posters and films trace the development of Soviet "agit-art," from its inception in 1918 among the painters of the Russian avant-garde to the heyday of Socialist Realism in the 1930s and 1940s...
Hopes that the death of Deng Xiao Ping, China’s leader during the massacre, might bring political reform were crushed when Jiang Zemin, the Communist Party’s third-generation leader, rejected reform outright. My friends and I, more disgusted than ever with the totalitarian regime, drafted a document published simultaneously in the U.S., France and Taiwan challenging the Chinese government to carry out sweeping reforms. Called “China Needs a New Transformation—Program Proposal of the Democratic Faction,” its revolutionary content frightened the leadership...
...includes some 390 works by 145 artists - ghosts of a not-so-distant past. Since East Germany no longer exists, it may seem obvious to view its culture as a marked-off "period." Many believe its artists can be clearly divided into those who created propaganda for the totalitarian state and those who remained independent and were repressed. But curators Roland M?rz and Eugen Blume demonstrate that many easy assumptions about art in East Germany do not hold up to closer scrutiny. Rather than reinforce the consensus view that this art can only be seen in its social and political...