In a well-rounded paragraph, describe the nature of totalitarianism and the police state that existed in russia, germany, and italy; explain how those governments differed from authoritarian governments. use examples from one of the countries mentioned to support your ideas.

Totalitarianism is the term by which ideologies, movements and political regimes where freedom is severely restricted and the State exerts all power without divisions or restrictions are known.

Totalitarian regimes, are differentiated from other autocratic regimes because they are directed by a political party that pretends to be or behaves in practice as a single party and fuses with the institutions of the State. These regimes, in general, exalt the figure of a character who has an unlimited power that reaches all areas and manifests through the authority exercised hierarchically. They promote a mass movement in which it is intended to frame the whole society, and make intensive use of propaganda and different mechanisms of social control and repression such as secret police and paramilitary groups.

The key difference between an authoritarian regime and a totalitarian regime is that in totalitarianism, the state obeys a specific law or objective; in the case of Stalin's Russia "the law of history", in the case of Hitler's Germany "the law of nature", these ultimate goals are those established as the supreme law, law that legitimizes the actions of the state. However, in a tyranny there is no ultimate goal that guides the actions of the state, the right is not at the service of ideology.

answer: a parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the confidence of the legislature, typically a parliament, and is also held accountable to that parliament. in a parliamentary system, the head of state is usually a person distinct from the head of government. this is in contrast to a presidential system, where the head of state often is also the head of government and, most importantly, the executive does not derive its democratic legitimacy from the legislature.

countries with parliamentary democracies may be constitutional monarchies, where a monarch is the head of state while the head of government is almost always a member of parliament (such as the united kingdom, denmark, sweden, and japan), or parliamentary republics, where a mostly ceremonial president is the head of state while the head of government is regularly from the legislature (such as ireland, germany, india, and italy). in a few parliamentary republics, such as botswana, south africa, and suriname, among some others, the head of government is also head of state, but is elected by and is answerable to parliament. in bicameral parliaments, the head of government is generally, though not always, a member of the lower house.

parliamentarianism is the dominant form of government in europe, with 32 of its 50 sovereign states being parliamentarian. it is also common in the caribbean, being the form of government of 10 of its 13 island states, and in oceania. elsewhere in the world, parliamentary countries are less common, but they are distributed through all continents, most often in former colonies of the british empire that subscribe to a particular brand of parliamentarianism known as the westminster system.

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