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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,481,554 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,432,098 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,568,114 ratings — published 1945
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,333 ratings — published 2012
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,081,980 ratings — published 1932
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.46 — 99,968 ratings — published 2009
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,166,708 ratings — published 2009
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 425,500 ratings — published 2019
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,847,146 ratings — published 1953
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,936,120 ratings — published 2008
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,814,255 ratings — published 1993
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 125,369 ratings — published 1962
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,263 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,821 ratings — published 1951
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.59 — 235,972 ratings — published 1962
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,729,810 ratings — published 2010
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 325,368 ratings — published 1990
We (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.88 — 112,857 ratings — published 1924
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,820 ratings — published 2010
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.03 — 84,766 ratings — published 2023
Anthem (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.61 — 167,244 ratings — published 1938
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.70 — 139,963 ratings — published 1994
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,047 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.68 — 198,874 ratings — published 1848
The Heart Goes Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.40 — 75,895 ratings — published 2015
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,795 ratings — published 1973
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,148 ratings — published 1957
The Confusions of Young Törless (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,214 ratings — published 1906
The Captive Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,948 ratings — published 1953
Maggot Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,006 ratings — published 2012
The Pyramid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,048 ratings — published 1992
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 278,751 ratings — published 1978
The Land of Green Plums (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,364 ratings — published 1994
Crossed (Matched, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.52 — 259,182 ratings — published 2011
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.62 — 815,253 ratings — published 2010
On the Marble Cliffs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,655 ratings — published 1939
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.18 — 339,631 ratings — published 1995
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,099 ratings — published 1849
Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.96 — 636 ratings — published
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.28 — 422,111 ratings — published 1967
The First Circle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,221 ratings — published 1968
The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.10 — 69 ratings — published 2009
Hadji Murád (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.86 — 15,477 ratings — published 1912
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,146 ratings — published 2004
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,462 ratings — published 2018
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.94 — 129,038 ratings — published 1970
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,098 ratings — published 1966
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.04 — 36,924 ratings — published 2019
Il fascismo eterno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,624 ratings — published 2020
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,598 ratings — published 1988
“There was no such thing as Kazakhstan. It was just a chunk of Soviet Union.
I had to build a country, to establish an army, our own police, our internal life, everything from roads to the constitution. I had to change the minds of the people 180 degrees, from totalitarian regime to freedom, from state property to private property.
Nobody wanted to understand that. My comrades from the communist party were against me. I had to train myself too...
I wasn't raised with democracy and freedom of speech.”
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I had to build a country, to establish an army, our own police, our internal life, everything from roads to the constitution. I had to change the minds of the people 180 degrees, from totalitarian regime to freedom, from state property to private property.
Nobody wanted to understand that. My comrades from the communist party were against me. I had to train myself too...
I wasn't raised with democracy and freedom of speech.”
―
“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
