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Hannah Arendt's definitive work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history. It begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I.
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (2004) Hardcover
(1) insisting on anti-Semitism as origin of totalitarianism limits the concept to the two cases Arendt rallies (in 1949/51 perhaps understandably so), and even the second case doesn't fit quite so well; it forecloses a much wider range of totalitarianism. This apart, it is also simply wrong.
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"The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt (1951; 527 pages). I first read this book in college; this now the third and most impactful read. The book might be quoted in its entirety to emphasize the need to study, understand and be challenged by the material.