... and one party led by a dictator. In addition, total subjection of an individual comes only due to science and technology. Mass communication in these states is monitored rigorously. A form of a secret police force keeps the populace in check and terrified to rebel. Arms and weapons of mass destruction are destroyed kept under control. Most importantly, the emergence of totalitarian governments usually occurs ... bones, the smashed teeth and bloody clots of hair It was certain that by a given date, you would be dead." (Orwell 87). With similar means as violent as this, the secret police ...

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... the notoriety of the action so that the people would not lose popular confidence in him. His solution was OVRA, a secret police force who built concentration camps on the Lipari Islands for anyone who opposed Mussolini and the Fascists. Similar to the Nazi's and the Bolsheviks ... , a secret police force ensure any political ideas or people that endangered the party would be dealt with quietly and effectively. So now, with his power ... he had to do and became a dictator. Following in the footsteps of Mussolini, immediately all other political parties were banned, newspapers were censor...

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... assumed the dual position of prime minister and party leader (duce), and he used the party's militia to eliminate his enemies by intimidation and violence. Mussolini's government also controlled the police, muzzled the press, and censored academic activity. Meanwhile, Mussolini preached the end of class conflict and its replacement by national unity. He began to reorganize the economy and labor, taking ... mass party, led by one man, which forms the hardcore of the regime and which is typically superior to or intertwined with the governmental bureaucracy. 2. A system of terror by the pol...

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... Roman Empire. Mussolini organised armed gangs, called the Blackshirts, who dealt with troublemakers and criminals. they also broke up strikes. In some cities, Bologna for example, the Fascists were the police force. Mussolini's newspaper, "Il Popolo d'Italia", spread his ideas. As unemployment grew and people became more desperate, they turned to Mussolini to solve Italy's problems. In October 1922 Mussolini ... , spoke out against the Fascists he was kidnapped and found murdered. Mussolini was not involved, but it was a warning for the future. In the next few years Mussolini set up a s...

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... . Moreover, any war against Austria in the 1820's would mean war against Russia and Prussia too because the Holy Alliance acted as international police force resisting the tide of change. So the political, diplomatic and military condition in 1820's and 1830's did not favour the unification of ... between the throne and the people to achieve any effective movement against Austrian rule in Italy. Moreover, the uncoordinated and ineffective effort of the secret societies, for Carbonari did not achieve. Gicat's success when Austrian power was strong but the sects unity and forced was weak. A...

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... the state by dividing people into classes. A process of repression in both Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, dealt efficiently with those who remained aloof, critical or overtly reactionary. Italy established a secret police force in the form of the OVRA, Germany established the Gestapo. Such forces were themselves above the law. Special courts had the power to sentence people to death for treason ... ...

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