How are totalitarian regimes different from authoritarian ones?
August 12, 2020 | Education
| Authoritarian – based on the cult of the personality of one person, for example, Stalinism.
Totalitarian – state intervention in all spheres of activity of its citizens and the desire for complete control over them. As in the USSR, starting with the Octobrists, the pioneers, the Komsomol, the party. They never exist in their pure form, and these features are present in democratic countries.
