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.

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the vast majority of ballots have been counted nearly two weeks after one of the biggest political upsets in modern u.s. history catapulted donald trump to the presidency.

estimates show more than 58 percent of eligible voters went to the polls during the 2016 election, nearly breaking even with the turnout rate set during the last presidential election in 2012, even as the final tallies in states like california continue to be calculated, according to statistics collected by the u.s. elections project.

but among those figures were stark contrasts in key states that swing the election to trump — in ohio, wisconsin, iowa, michigan and elsewhere — indicating the president-elect’s leap from long-shot candidate to the most powerful political position in the world may have happened in part because of apathy toward hillary clinton’s candidacy, especially among the democratic base, several political scientists and organizations monitoring voter turnout told the pbs newshour.

while clinton is leading the popular vote by more than 1.5 million over trump as of sunday, she trails president obama’s 2012 totals by more than 2 million ballots — a chasm that may have cost her the election, said david becker, co-founder of the center for election and innovation and research.

“several million voters didn’t come out to vote,” becker said. “which is telling me that this idea of the trump wave, a huge number of voters shifting over to trump, is certainly not the story.”