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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,763,000 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,560,461 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,808,014 ratings — published 1945
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.07 — 106,221 ratings — published 2012
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,153,716 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,990,298 ratings — published 1963
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.46 — 105,244 ratings — published 2009
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,332,784 ratings — published 2009
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,000 ratings — published 1962
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 464,942 ratings — published 2019
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.28 — 113,135 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,831 ratings — published 1951
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.59 — 244,602 ratings — published 1962
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,277,419 ratings — published 2008
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 331,364 ratings — published 1990
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,903,919 ratings — published 1993
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,656 ratings — published 1988
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.32 — 31,706 ratings — published 2021
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,833 ratings — published 1941
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,090 ratings — published 1940
We (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.87 — 119,614 ratings — published 1924
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,348 ratings — published 2007
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,787 ratings — published 2010
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.02 — 94,253 ratings — published 2023
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.99 — 544 ratings — published 2017
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,395 ratings — published 2003
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,966 ratings — published 2019
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.68 — 160,590 ratings — published 1994
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,202 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.70 — 209,744 ratings — published 1848
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,477 ratings — published 1951
The Heart Goes Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.40 — 76,711 ratings — published 2015
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,155 ratings — published 1973
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,572 ratings — published 1957
The Confusions of Young Törless (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.66 — 10,700 ratings — published 1906
The Captive Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,186 ratings — published 1953
Maggot Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,281 ratings — published 2012
The Pyramid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,103 ratings — published 1992
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 311,660 ratings — published 1979
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,873,754 ratings — published 2010
The Land of Green Plums (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,592 ratings — published 1994
Crossed (Matched, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.52 — 262,250 ratings — published 2011
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,592 ratings — published 1884
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 2.67 — 6 ratings — published
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 212 ratings — published 1999
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.28 — 64,267 ratings — published 2010
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,471 ratings — published 1967
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,431 ratings — published 1933
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.92 — 238 ratings — published 1980
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,377 ratings — published 1999
“Because the chief aim of totalitarian information networks is to produce order rather than discover truth, when alarming information threatens to undermine social order, totalitarian regimes often suppress it. It is relatively easy for them to do so, because they control all the information channels.”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“Communists condemn blind belief. Yet, information blackout by all communist states shows reliance on a a bizarre blind belief - If you turn off the lights, nobody can hear the gossip.”
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