Though The Origins of Totalitarianism was first published in 1951, Hannah Arendt’s book has been cited in numerous articles over the past few years. According to Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev in his speech before the 20 th Congress of the Communist Party in the USSR in 1956, of 1,966 delegates to the 1937 Congress, under Stalin’s orders 1,108 were arrested and executed on charges of being enemies of the state. But in the USSR in 1937-38, of the 139 members of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, 98 were arrested and shot. That act would be unthinkable, given the Centre’s values and mission, to say the least. Imagine if the Centre for Christian Studies was headed by a principal who ordered seventy percent of the members of Central Council, all standing committees and CCS staff, to be arrested and shot. the standards of thought) no longer exist.” (474) the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e. “ The ideal subject of totalitarianism is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e. Book Review: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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