Surviving and Subverting the Totalitarian State: A Tribute to Ismail Kadare

Considered forms and methods of the campaign "vigilance" in Ukraine in 1930s, which was carried out a view to approving a strictly centralized power and the main consequences of this campaign. In particular, the suppression lit any dissent within the ruling party. Determined that the course towards repression, as a method of achieving political goals was founded by Lenin. Was reflected the process of converting of the Bolshevik Party virtually in a paramilitary organization. Have been analyzed methods of attracting wider population in the campaign "vigilance". It is proved that the campaign "vigilance" stimulated painful craving for secrecy in politics, intolerance to the thoughts and views, the behavior of different from of the declared political power. Ultimately, the campaign "vigilance" has led to increased fear of authority in society, for fear of initiatives to distortion of by the media a state of inner life of the country and the life in foreign countries. This campaign has become an important factor in the approval of a totalitarian state.

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Poválečné perzekuce příslušníků armády a přijetí zákona na ochranu lidově demokratické republiky

10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9976-2021-12 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tomáš Řepa

Keyword(s):

Democratic Republic ◽

Second World War ◽

The State ◽

World War ◽

Second World ◽

Totalitarian State

After the end of the Second World War, Czechoslovakia was a country at a crossroads. The communists tried to take control of key institutions of the state, including the army. In doing so, a number of illegalities were committed. After the coup in February 1948, this was followed by the adoption of legislation by the already totalitarian state. A striking example was Law No. 231/1948 on the Protection of the People’s Democratic Republic, adopted in October 1948. On the basis of this law, many thousands of people were convicted for alleged anti-State acts.

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Introduction: Agamben and Radical Politics

Agamben and Radical Politics ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402637.003.0012 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel McLoughlin

Keyword(s):

Political Thought ◽

Radical Politics ◽

Critical Thought ◽

Homo Sacer ◽

Liberal Government ◽

Totalitarian State

This chapter explains the rationale for the book by surveying the reception of Agamben’s work and the development of the Homo Sacer project. It notes that Agamben was often criticised for political quietism and for focusing on sovereignty and the totalitarian state at the expense of capitalism and liberal government. It suggests that we should re-think Agamben’s contribution to critical thought on the basis of his recent works, which develop a genealogy of the theological roots of economy, and develop his account of a non-sovereign politics. It also emphasises the importance of Agamben’s engagement with classical and contemporary theorists associated with the revolutionary tradition for understanding his contribution to political thought.

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The Nature of the Nazi State and the Responsibility of Corporate Officials at Nuremberg

Veiled Power ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198822097.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 69-111

Author(s):

Doreen Lustig

Keyword(s):

Legal Reasoning ◽

Frankfurt School ◽

The State ◽

Individual Responsibility ◽

Nazi Regime ◽

State Authority ◽

Totalitarian State

Chapter 4 explores how various conceptions of the Nazi totalitarian state influenced the findings and prosecutions of the Industrialist Trials at Nuremberg conducted against key officials in the Flick, Krupp, and I.G. Farben companies. The chapter considers the influence of the Frankfurt School and Franz Neumann’s theory of the Nazi state as Behemoth on the prosecution’s innovative theory of the Nazi regime. The tribunals’ legal reasoning rejected Neumann’s theory of Behemoth and insisted instead on a link being established with state authority, influence, or control as a basis for the responsibility of corporate officials. The chapter analyses the shortcomings of the tribunals’ approach in meeting the normative challenge of the Industrialist Trials, namely to develop principles for establishing responsibilities among businesspersons operating as such. Furthermore, it reveals how the tribunals’ conceptions of the corporate veil of the state, the company, and the relation between them served as a shield against individual responsibility.

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Scientists and the Totalitarian State

The Many Faces of Science ◽

10.4324/9780429496295-9 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 165-183

Author(s):

Leslie Stevenson ◽

Henry Byerly

Keyword(s):

Totalitarian State

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War Art in Japan

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem205-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Asato Ikeda

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Interior Design ◽

Subject Matter ◽

The State ◽

Japanese Culture ◽

World War ◽

The West ◽

Woodblock Prints ◽

War Effort ◽

Totalitarian State

Under Japan’s totalitarian state during World War II, most Japanese artists participated in the war effort. Their activities included producing works commissioned by the state, displaying works in state-sponsored exhibitions, donating the proceeds of art to the state, and dedicating works, as symbolic gestures, to religious sites, important battles, seminal state officials, or to those who gave their lives in the war. War artists produced works in diverse media, styles, and subject matter, ranging from painting, photography, woodblock prints, and sculpture to architecture and interior design. However, their works invariably glorified Japan’s military occupation in Asia and war against the West, or they resonated with the wartime state ideology that sought to recreate a traditional Japanese culture uncontaminated by modernity.

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Near Disaster

Slave Traders by Invitation ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190876104.003.0016 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 225-236

Author(s):

Finn Fuglestad

Keyword(s):

The Relationship ◽

Totalitarian State

Tegbesu, king of Dahomey (1740–74), found himself at the helm of a polity on the brink of implosion and was also faced with formidable external foes. He managed to wade through by accentuating the regime of terror, possibly establishing something akin to a “totalitarian” state, complete with internal purges. Dahomey’s enemies (Oyo, the exiled Huedans, Glidji etc.) were unable to coordinate their efforts. The relationship with (and between) the Europeans remained strained, provoking their slow disentanglement. But Tegbesu did try to mend his relations with the Portuguese-Brazilians, even sending the first of what turned out to be many Dahomean embassies to the viceroy in Brazil.

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