The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was Hannah Arendt's first major work, where she describes and analyzes Nazism and Stalinism as the major totalitarian political movements of the first half of the 20th century.
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Mass refers to a large group or a majority of people, who gather or bond together to support each other.
Propaganda is information, which is biased or misleading nature, and is used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
A totalitarian movement is the essence of institutionalized obedience in an abdication of the individual responsibility of making one's own moral judgements. The individual stops thinking for himself, he obeys and conforms without questioning...
