Sentence examples for under a totalitarian from inspiring English sources

("Pillowman" is set in an unnamed country, under a "totalitarian dictatorship").

It is the candid commentary of a brilliant observer who documents fifty years of Soviet literary activity and the personal predicament of the writer under a totalitarian regime.

In these and subsequent works Havel explored the self-deluding rationalizations and moral compromises that characterize life under a totalitarian political system.

For most of us born in democratic countries, the question of what we would do when faced with moral quandaries under a totalitarian regime is purely hypothetical.

Perhaps the most powerful, effective and frightening notion of 1984 is that the complete control of an entire nation under a totalitarian state is perfectly possible.

You don't have to live under a totalitarian government to understand some of the head trips Timothy Snyder of Bloodlands fame describes in his provocative and incisive interview over at the Browser.

But this was the same Germany that under Otto von Bismarck became a militaristic state and under Adolf Hitler a totalitarian one.

These were our cold war years living under the specter of a totalitarian regime and fearing death, not from secret police or nuclear annihilation, but from a raging epidemic.

We aren't living under a repressive totalitarian regime now – the sovereign democracy is more sophisticated than that – but satire still isn't popular with Russian leadership.

Everyone seemed genuinely happy, not crushed under a grinding totalitarian bureacracy at all.

Years ago, when I was a very green young attorney, I had a client who had been kidnapped and tortured under a brutal totalitarian dictatorship.