Immoral Obscenity: Censorship of Folklore Manuscript Collections in Late Stalinist Estonia by Kaisa Kulasalu

“…In this article, I will focus on the censorship of obscene words and motifs and the political dimension of moralistic censorship in a totalitarian state.…”
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THE PECULIARITIES OF HEGEL'S ETHICS by Rūta Marija Marija Vabalaitė

“…The contemporary notion of subject enables us to assert that in spite of the totalitarian features of Hegelian philosophical system, his theory of morals is valuable for youth's education. …”
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La dignità umana e la ricerca del suo fondamento. Considerazioni a margine dall’Enciclica “Fratelli tutti” by Agnese Varsalona

“…The denial of man's capacity for self-transcendence and the existence of an absolute foundation - imagined as totalitarian and repressing diversity – expose to the danger of manipulation of what is human and disintegration of the social tissue. …”
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«Authoritarian Transition of Peripheral Countries of Interwar Europe: Politological Analysis» by E. G. Ponomareva

“…While all authoritarian regimes of the period in the region under study were characterized by three foundations of authoritarianism– Fuhrerprinzip, ideas of constructing nationstate and nationalism, specific traits allow to distinguish between three clusters of authoritarian regimes in the interwar Europe: military-bureaucratic, corporate (guild) and pre-totalitarian (fascist mobilization) ones. However, the main conclusion is: the complex economic, political and socio-cultural situation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe and the Baltic states aggravated by the consequences of globalization and world financial crisis is able to provoke recurrences of authoritarian transition.…”
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The Vision of State and Social Life in the Normative Models of Environmental Awareness by Wojciech Trempała

“…Some are blatantly totalitarian, citing the impotence of democracy in the face of the looming ecological disaster. …”
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“Where Does My Hope Come From?”: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992) as a Christian Dystopia in the Context of the Late 20th Century Demographic Crisis by Suzanne Bray

“…While British dystopian works from the 1930s to the mid-1980s were primarily concerned with the fear of totalitarian regimes and/or nuclear war, by the last years of the twentieth century, the end of the Cold War meant that these worries were no longer so prevalent. …”
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Political and ideological background of LSSR KGB activity against antisoviet powers in 1954-1990 by Kristina Burinskaitė

“… Communist ideology not only legitimized the Soviet totalitarian regime but also influenced and defined the basis and direction of KGB activity and legitimized its repressive policy. …”
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Sword of heaven by Richard Wilson

“…If Shakespeare editions have been slow to absorb the news from Vienna that the schizophrenia of Measure for Measure is a result not of authorial despair, but of its having been constructed by two dramatists of distinct generations and mentalities, working some sixteen years apart, they have nonetheless always registered resistance in the play to this totalitarian project of putting power on display.…”
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Sword of Heaven : Political Theology in Measure for Measure by Richard Wilson

“…If Shakespeare editions have been slow to absorb the news from Vienna that the schizophrenia of Measure for Measure is a result not of authorial despair, but of its having been constructed by two dramatists of distinct generations and mentalities, working some sixteen years apart, they have nonetheless always registered resistance in the play to this totalitarian project of putting power on display.…”
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The Legacy of Nineteen Eighty-Four: British Dystopias, from 1984 to the present day by Claire Wrobel

“…However, new concerns have also emerged in the “post-totalitarian dystopia”, in which late capitalism is a predatory force that devours humans and nature. …”
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Internal situation in USSR in Russian emigration press in the United States (1964–1982) by T. S. Kulepanova

“…Publicists broadcast a number of stereotypes of the totalitarian direction of American Russian studies at the analyzing the concept of «Soviet state». …”
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Kissing the naked Novomeský (an interpretative probe into an unpublished chapter from Janko Silan’s book Dom opustenosti [House of abandonment]) by Andrej Gejdoš

“…Although he actively pursued its publication, especially between 1970 and 1974, the text could not be published during the period of normalisation in the totalitarian Czechoslovakia. The work was officially made available to readers only after the socio-political changes of 1989, first in 1991 and later in an expanded edition in 1997. …”
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Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature during the normalisation period by Olha Norba

“…Prominent themes included environmental pollution, warnings against the loss of humanity, calls for peace, fear of nuclear catastrophe, and condemnation of power domination and totalitarian rhetoric. Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature of the normalisation period proved to be an effective way to re-evaluate the traditional black-and-white vision of society, which was viewed as divided into the “fighting dissent” and the masses blindly accepting the ruling regime.…”
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RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS: THEORY AND PRACTICE ACTIVITIES by Vladislav L. Benin, Timur Z. Urazmetov

“…The scientific inconsistency of widespread concepts "sect", «totalitarian sect», and «a destructive cult» is proved. …”
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The situation of the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia in the second half of 20th century by Peter Šturák

“…The Greek Catholic Church suffered from pressure of the totalitarian regime the most, it even made its martyrs. …”
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St. John Paul II’s Natural Law Legacy and International Human Rights Culture of Human Dignity – A Road to Universal Brotherhood and Peace by Ján Figel

“…The author advocates a return to the core principles of key documents on this subject to counter the influence of various  ideologies and  totalitarian regimes. Highlighting secular and faith-based sources including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Vatican II Council Declaration, the text emphasizes human dignity as the meeting point for religious and secular humanists. …”
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GENDER STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP by N. V. Кhamitov, D. D. Dandekar

“…In the context of modern gender anthropology and androgyny-analysis, it is found that as a result of the implementation of the strategy of existential sexism and existential hermaphroditism, political leadership becomes authoritarian, and sometimes also totalitarian, while the strategy of androgynism associated with gender partnership gives rise to constructive political leadership. …”
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The dream that never dies: the ideals and realities of cosmopolitanism in science, 1870–1940 by Robert Fox

“…A “national turn” during the 1920s assumed a darker form in the 1930s, as totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Spain associated science ever more closely with national interests. …”
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A Political-Theological Issue: Is Kemalism a Civil Religion or a Political Religion? by Gülbeyaz Karakuş

“…In this context, it is questioned whether there is no clear distinction between a political religion and a civil religion, peculiar to the totalitarian regimes, and whether there a new “theology” has been established which is contrary to the established religion.…”
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Dystopia, surveillance and the spaces of social control in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012) by Claire Wrobel

“…Although the text explicitly reappropriates the Panopticon designed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), an invention itself riven by the tension between utopia and dystopia, and echoes Michel Foucault’s strategic reading in Discipline and Punish (1975), the virulent critique it levels at the welfare state echoes some of the central issues to be found in George Orwell's attack on totalitarian states, particularly those related to memory and language. …”
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