In the book's first section, Arendt looks to the history and development of antisemitism as it relates to the nation-state and modern dictatorships. "Lenin and Manifistation" by Isaak Brodsky, 1919. When Arendt points to the collapse of distinctions between fact and fiction and between truth and falsity as dangerous preconditions and tools of totalitarian regimes, too, she underscores the epistemological crises underlying and even catalyzing the political upheavals of her modern world. Not a simple catalog of political developments of the modern state, Arendt's volume also considers the social conditions that prepare people for their own domination by totalitarian leaders. The book is divided into three sections – the first on antisemitism, the second on imperialism and the third on totalitarianism. Published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism is, on the one hand, a study of the two major totalitarian political movements of the 20th Century and, on the other hand, a study of the political history of mass movements more generally.
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