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Authoritarian States: Books from the LIbrary

Authoritarian and Single Party States: Mao

Authoritarian and Single Party States: Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Authoritarian States

Authoritarianism, principle of blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. In government, authoritarianism denotes any political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people. Authoritarian leaders often exercise power arbitrarily and without regard to existing bodies of law, and they usually cannot be replaced by citizens choosing freely among various competitors in elections. The freedom to create opposition political parties or other alternative political groupings with which to compete for power with the ruling group is either limited or nonexistent in authoritarian regimes.

The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. (n.d.). Authoritarianism. Retrieved May 05, 2017, from
     https://www.britannica.com/topic/authoritarianism 

What Makes a Ruler a Dictator? Definition and List of Dictators
A dictator is a political leader who rules over a country with absolute and unlimited power. Countries ruled by dictators are called dictatorships. 

Authoritarian States: Media

The Nazis would later try to rewrite history to say that Hitler became Chancellor simply because it was his destiny, but in reality, Hitler had been helped by economic circumstance and the support and miscalculation of others.

Updated by Luciana Cavallaro March 2022