This book by Hannah Arendt examines the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century, exploring the political, social, and economic conditions that allowed for its emergence. Arendt examines the history of totalitarianism in Europe, from its roots in the 19th century to its full-
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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.