Sentence examples for totalitarian character from inspiring English sources

The social historian Christopher Lasch said Mr. Phillips and Rahv "earned from American intellectuals a lasting debt of gratitude by exposing the totalitarian character of Soviet Communism".

But Applebaum provides this in the introduction and in Chapters 2 and 3, which analyze the totalitarian character of the Soviet system under Stalin, driven by ideology and a hunger for power as well as geopolitical considerations.

Connected through cellphones and e-mail, shooting clandestinely on minicams and smuggling footage out of the country by courier, the Internet and satellite hookups, the correspondents for the Democratic Voice of Burma (a television station in exile based in Oslo) not only exposed the totalitarian character of the Myanmar authorities to world scrutiny, they revealed the future of war reporting.

The totalitarian character of Kim's system is clear; the global extent of his rackets is horrifying; the murderous brutality with which he treats his own subjects is clearly documented.

The famed director of "JFK" and "Wall Street" talks about his new film, "Snowden," about Edward Snowden the man, the totalitarian character of "surveillance capitalism" and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On the other side, the Soviet state, whose totalitarian character and ambitions in its foreign policy had expanded after their victory over Nazi Germany, appropriated that morale and concealed their expansionist objectives, which were growing exponentially.

It was about whether oil-rich Venezuela would remain a democracy, or adopt what was in reality a substantially new constitution of quasi-totalitarian character that could have allowed Mr Chávez to remain president for life.

It also makes it a criminal offence to deny the "criminal character of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991 in Ukraine" in the media or elsewhere.

Big Brother, fictional character, the dictator of the totalitarian empire of Oceania in the novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) by George Orwell.

Mohamed captures the proud spirits of the women and the chaos of nation-building in a totalitarian state, but, all too often, the characters are uneven and weighed down by their representational burden.

The book attracted academic interest, and scholars discussed it in at least three distinct categories: language and style, often in relation to the politics of totalitarianism; trauma studies, given the psychological pressure on the novel's characters, who grow up under a totalitarian regime; and ethnographic and literary studies of the German minority in Romania.