- Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?
- What part does propaganda play in the production and consumption of values?
- Is it ever appropriate to compromise the individual for the benefit of the state?
- To what extent are people prone to letting themselves be manipulated? What are the effects?
- How did authoritarian leaders compromise individual natural rights? To what effect?
- Can societies and peoples simultaneously guarantee equal rights and individuality?
- Can one person make a difference in society? Can a small group of people? Which can make more of a difference?
- To what extent did Orwell's 1984 reflect the reality of totalitarian societies in the 20th Century World?
- How does a historian's depiction of the past influence our view of great men?
- How can individuals or institutions control the future by controlling the past? How can individuals or institutions control the past by controlling the present?
- To what extent are leaders responsible for creating the conditions for war and peace?
- Do great men cause historical events, or do they ride the wave of history?
- How can we analyze the course of history through an analysis of leaders and environment?
- To what extent are we the victims of sweeping historical forces? (Economic, ideological, environmental)
- What are the views of thinkers of the 19th and 20th Centuries on these questions?
- How did Hegel and Marx apply the dialectic differently when analyzing history?
- How can we use the dialectic to analyze historical events?
- Do people turn to narratives that employ the determinism of great men or gods in order to not to feel helpless in the face of historical forces?
- How have the theories of historical thinkers shaped the political and ideological landscape of the 20th and 21st Centuries? What sort of ideologies and leaders have their theories thrown up?
- How do these theories apply to your daily life? (In politics. In school. Among friends.)
Surely, it is argued, if in Germany the creation of a totalitarian regime brought the Streichers and Killingers, the Leys and Heines, the Himmlers and Heydrichs to power, this may prove the viciousness of the German character, but not that the rise of such people is the necessary consequence of a totalitarian system. “Today's totalitarianism demands allegiance to a set of progressive beliefs, many of which are incapable with logic—and certainly with Christianity.” The title is derived from a quote from famed Russian anti-Communist intellectual Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who uttered the phrase not long before being exiled from the Soviet Union. Totalitarianism, form of government that permits no individual freedom and seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state. Coined by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the early 1920s, the term has become synonymous with absolute and oppressive single-party government. Title: The Rise of Totalitarianism 1 The Rise of Totalitarianism 2. World War I and the Russian Revolution triggered off a Global Civil War; At issue crisis and transformation of the global system; A long series of intense political struggles within states and between states. Main groups of actors; political forces seeking revolutionary changes.
- Evaluate the political ideology and social policies of any two authoritarian leaders of the 20th Century.
- Evaluate the role of propaganda in one single party or authoritarian state.
- Describe and analyze the rise to power and rule of any one left-wing ruler of a single party state.
- Describe and analyze the rise to power and rule of any one right-wing ruler of a single party state.
- Compare the domestic policies of any two authoritarian leaders of the 20th Century.
- Compare the methods used to maintain rule by one left-wing ruler and one right-wing ruler of different single-party states.
- Compare the ideologies of any two left-wing rulers of single party states.
- Evaluate the importance of ideology for rulers of twentieth century single-party states
- Compare the impact of the policies of two rulers of single-party states on the role and status of women.
- Describe and analyze the global impact of one ruler of a single-party state.
- Compare the foreign policy of two rulers of single-party states, each chosen from a different IB region.
- Examine the conditions that led to two single party states.
- Compare and contrast the rise to power of one right-wing, and one left-wing, leader of a single-party or authoritarian state.
- Compare the methods used by either Stalin or Hitler to maintain power with those employed by your assigned leader for focused study.
- Discuss the successes and failures of Stalin or Hitler.
- In what ways, and with what results, did one ruler use the following: religion, propaganda and the arts.
- Analyze the social and economic policies of Hitler.
- In what ways, and to what extent, did the status of women change in two single party states, each chosen from a different IB region.
- In 1924 Stalin said: 'the state is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of enemies of that class.' Compare how Stalin and Hitler carried out this belief.
- In 1953 Castro declared: 'History will absolve me.' To what extent do you agree that his claim has proven true with regard to authoritarian leaders of the 20th Century?
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