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A Discussion of Aviezer Tucker's The Legacies of Totalitarianism
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The consulted source for the authoritarianism, fascism, and totalitarianism guides: A Discussion of Aviezer Tucker's The Legacies of Totalitarianism.
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The Nazi consolidation case supplies evidence about named institutions and dates; it cannot by itself prove that one totalitarianism definition is universally valid or that other regimes inherit its features.
- context · p. 535, paragraphs 1–2
Bunce notes that totalitarianism became a Cold War comparison between Nazi and Soviet regimes and that scholars disputed both its analytic validity and its ideological uses.
- supports · p. 535, paragraphs 1–2
Because totalitarianism has been extended to many unlike targets in public controversy, applying the word does not by itself establish the features required by a scholarly definition.
- supports · p. 535, paragraphs 1–2