The Rise and Fall of Totalitarianism

" totalitarianism not in the straw man version but in the sophisticated version is a very powerful theory and it's also a very powerful analytical concept," he says. "We sometimes have a tendency to tone down, wish away, deeply held ideological beliefs that make us uncomfortable or that we don't hold ourselves" The Hoover Institution archives are still valuable even after the opening of the Soviet archives: they show how deep the moral squalor was at the same time.