List of totalitarian regimes
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This is a list of totalitarian dictatorships.
Totalitarian states
Islamist totalitarian states
| Country | Leader | Ideologies | Government | End goals | Date of establishment | Date of dissolution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Governance of the Gaza Strip[1]
|
Ismail Haniyeh | Islamism Palestinian nationalism Anti-Zionism Anti-semitism |
Unitary self-governing presidential system | Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement | 2007 | ||
 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia[2]
|
House of Al Saud | Hanbali Islamism Wahhabism Saudi Arabian nationalism |
Unitary Islamic absolute monarchy | Saudi Vision 2030 | 1932 | ||
 Republic of the Sudan[3]
|
Omar al Bashir[3] | Arab nationalism[citation needed] Islamism[citation needed] Salafism[citation needed] Social conservatism[citation needed] |
Federal[citation needed] dominant-party[citation needed] presidential[citation needed] republic[citation needed] (1998-present)[citation needed] Federal[citation needed] one-party[citation needed] republic[citation needed] (1993-1998)[citation needed] |
1993[citation needed] |
Former Islamist totalitarian states
| Country | Leader | Ideologies | Government | End goals | Date of establishment | Date of dissolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan[4]
|
Mohammed Omar[4][5] | Deobandi fundamentalism[6] Islamism[6] Pashtunwali[7] Religious nationalism[7] Salafi jihadism[4] |
Unitary Islamic theocratic absolute monarchy[5] | Talibanization[citation needed] Afghan reunification[4] |
1996[4] | 2001[4] |
 Islamic Republic of Iran[8]
|
Ruhollah Khomeini | Islamism Shia Islam Khomeinism Republicanism Anti-imperialism Anti-communism Anti-Americanism Anti-Zionism |
Unitary one-party theocratic Islamic republic under a Supreme Leader | Islamization of Iran | 1979 | 1989 |
Left-wing totalitarian states
| Country | Leader | Ideologies | Government | End goals | Date of establishment | Date of dissolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Democratic People's Republic of Korea[9][10][11]
|
Kim dynasty[11] | Chulsin-songbun[12] Juche[12] Korean nationalism Kimism Songun |
Unitary Juche one-party socialist republic under a hereditary military dictatorship | Korean reunification | 1948[citation needed] | |
 Syrian Arab Republic[13]
|
Hafez Al Assad (1971-2000)[13] Bashar Al Assad (2000-present)[13] |
Arab socialism Pan-Arabism Ba'athism Neo-Ba'athism Assadism Anti-zionism Secularism |
Unitary one-party republic (until 2011) Unitary dominant-party republic (since 2011) |
Arab Union Greater Syria Syrian reunification |
1971 |
Former left-wing totalitarian states
Nationalist totalitarian states
Former nationalist totalitarian states
| Country | Leader | Ideologies | Government | End goals | Date of establishment | Date of dissolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Republic of Zaire[26]
|
Mobutu Sese Seko[26] | Mobutism[27][28] African nationalism Anti-communism Zairian nationalism Mobutu's cult of personality |
One-party presidential republic under a military dictatorship | Authenticité Africanization |
1971 | 1997 |
 Republic of Uganda[29]
|
Idi Amin Dada[29] | Social conservatism Anti-communism African nationalism Economic nationalism Militarism Isolationism Xenophobia Anti-zionism(from 1976) |
Military dictatorship | 1971 | 1979 |
Former fascist totalitarian states
Notes
- ^ Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism disputes that Italy was a totalitarian state.
- ^ Robert Paxton in The Anatomy of Fascism disputes that Japan was a totalitarian state.
References
- ^ Toameh, Khaled Abu. "Who Is Destroying the Palestinian Dream?".
- ^ Bandow, Doug. "Iran Is Dangerous, But Saudi Arabia Is Worse".
- ^ a b "Sudan Islamic Totalitarianism - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan". www.sudantribune.com.
- ^ a b c d e f "The Totalitarian Present - The American Interest". 1 September 2009.
- ^ a b "Mullah Muhammad Omar, Enigmatic Leader of Afghan Taliban, Is Dead". 30 July 2015 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ a b "Did you know that there are two different Taliban groups?". 1 April 2013.
- ^ a b "NCTC Home". www.nctc.gov.
- ^ http://www.ihrr.org/ihrr_article/religion-en_the-third-form-of-totalitarianism-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/
- ^ "North Korea country profile". 9 April 2018 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Kim Jong Un's North Korea: Life inside the totalitarian state". Washington Post.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Totalitarianism". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2018.
- ^ a b "What Is The Juche Ideology Of North Korea?".
- ^ a b c "Syria: Between oppression and freedom - Ifimes". www.ifimes.org.
- ^ Rutland, Peter (1993). The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management. Cambridge University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-521-39241-9.
after 1953 ...This was still an oppressive regime, but not a totalitarian one.
- ^ Krupnik, Igor (1995). "4. Soviet Cultural and Ethnic Policies Towards Jews: A Legacy Reassessed". In Ro'i, Yaacov (ed.). Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-714-64619-0.
The era of 'social engineering' in the Soviet Union ended with the death of Stalin in 1953 or soon after; and that was the close of the totalitarian regime itself.
- ^ von Beyme, Klaus (2014). On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics. Springer. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-319-01559-0.
The Soviet Union after the death of Stalin moved from totalitarianism to authoritarian rule.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/opinion/the-war-we-could-have-won.html
- ^ "Iraq: A Population Silenced". 2001-2009.state.gov.
- ^ Kafala, Tarik (20 October 2011). "Gaddafi's quixotic and brutal rule" – via www.bbc.com.
- ^ www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-gaddafi-was-the-quintessential-20th-century-dictator/2011/10/21/gIQANkTb4L_story.html
- ^ Birrell, Ian (22 October 2011). "The strange and evil world of Equatorial Guinea". the Guardian.
- ^ Taylor, Adam (12 June 2015). "The brutal dictatorship the world keeps ignoring" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- ^ https://www.nation.co.ke/news/africa/1066-2744120-uyqx0jz/index.html
- ^ https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/05/quantum-mechanics-israeli-totalitarianism-150507072609153.html
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/04/25/netanyahu-aims-at-dictatorship/
- ^ a b Smith, David (10 February 2015). "Where Concorde once flew: the story of President Mobutu's 'African Versailles'". the Guardian.
- ^ books.google.com.br/books?id=HeWRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=zaire+totalitarianism&source=bl&ots=6B_2gzU-FT&sig=nc32QJIJ2qMu01qUqj5NXph6G-U&hl=pt-BR&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjO5Jfui-PaAhXFI5AKHUOHCKsQ6AEwAXoECAgQAQ
- ^ Gouahinga, Francois (8 January 2007). "Congo-Kinshasa: Review of Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System - An Afrocentric Analysis" – via AllAfrica.
- ^ a b Smith, Asher (4 September 2012). "The "Evolution" of Totalitarian Regimes Is Really a Throwback".
- ^ "Foundations of the Nazi State". www.ushmm.org.
- ^ a b c gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/nazibeliefsrev_print.shtml
- ^ "Fascism and the Italian Road to Totalitarianism". www.libraryofsocialscience.com.
- ^ "Heil Hirohito: Was Imperial Japan a Fascist Totalitarian State?". 23 January 2017.