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Authoritarian and Single
Party States
What are the constitutes an
Authoritarian States?
• Only one legal political party
• Leader is often chosen by/from the military
following a coup
• One leader or group dominates the state
Paper Two
The characteristics of an
Authoritarian State
• Little or no freedom of
speech
• No freedom of assembly
• No freedom of
movement
• No freedom of travel
• No rule of law
• Extensive censorship
• Violent oppression of
dissent
• Cult of Personality
Ideologies
Left Wing
• Socialism & Communism
Ideologies
Right Wing
Left Wing
• Fascism and Military
Right Wing
• Stalin
• Hitler
• Mao
• Mussolini
• Castro
• Peron
• Nyerere
• Franco
Dictatorship
• Retribution of Wealth
• State ownership of
industries
• Revolutionary in nature
•
Ultra"Nationalist
• Anti"Communist
• Conservative in Nature
Totalitarianism: Total domination of the
state over a people
Key Themes
Characteristics of Fascism
• Virulent Anti"Marxism
• Disgust for liberalism &
• Celebrates force,
strength, violence:
slogans, and the military.
democracy
Origins and nature of
authoritarian and
single!party states
• Conditions that
• Promotes discipline,
• Ultra"Nationalism
• Reactionary
•
sacri&ce, & obedience to
the leader.
• Glori&cation of the past
Seeks national unity
• Statism
• Persecutes $enemies of
the state%
• Cult of Personality
•
Establishment of
authoritarian and
single!party states
produced authoritarian
and single party states
• Methods: forces, legal
Emergence of leaders:
aims, ideology, support
!left" and right"wing#
ideology
• Totalitarianism: the
aim and the extent to
which it was achieved
• Forms of government,
• Nature, extent, and
treatment of
opposition
Key Themes
Structure of Paper Two
E"ects and results of wars
• Structure and organization of government and
administration
• Political, economic, social and religious policies
• Roles of education, the arts, the media, propaganda
• Status women, treatment of religious groups and
minorities
• Five total sections with six questions each
• Types
• Three named questions
• Two open"ended questions
• One $social, economic, or gender% questions
• Regions
• Questions may demand responses from di'erent
regions
Analyze the methods used by either Castro or
Mao to maintain his position as the ruler of a
single party state.
Examine how and why one leader of a single
party state was able to make a successful bid for
power.
Discuss the role and status of women in two
single"party states, each from a di'erent region