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What makes totalitarian regimes special? This is a response to the IB syllybus requirement to consider the 'extent to which authoritarian control was achieved'.
Drawing on the work of political scientists Juan Linz, Barbara Geddes and Ronald Wintrobe, this lesson attempts to identify the key characteristics that distinguish totalitarian states from other forms of authoritarian government.
What makes totalitarian regimes special? This is a response to the IB syllybus requirement to consider the 'extent to which authoritarian control was achieved'.
Drawing on the work of political scientists Juan Linz, Barbara Geddes and Ronald Wintrobe, this lesson attempts to identify the key characteristics that distinguish totalitarian states from other forms of authoritarian government.


