Editing Totalitarianism (section)

====Totalitarian model====
In the U.S. geopolitics of the late 1950s, the Cold War concepts and the terms ''totalitarianism'', ''totalitarian'', and ''totalitarian model'', presented in ''Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy'' (1956), by Carl Joachim Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski, became common usages in the foreign-policy discourse of the U.S. Subsequently established, the ''totalitarian model'' became the analytic and interpretational paradigm for [[Kremlinology]], the academic study of the monolithic police-state USSR. The Kremlinologists analyses of the internal politics (policy and personality) of the [[politburo]] crafting policy (national and foreign) yielded [[strategic intelligence]] for dealing with the USSR. Moreover, the U.S. also used the totalitarian model when dealing with fascist totalitarian régimes, such as that of a [[banana republic]] country.<ref name="Brzezinski & Friedrich 1956">{{cite book |last1=Brzezinski |first1=Zbigniew |author-link1=Zbigniew Brzezinski |last2=Friedrich |first2=Carl |author-link2=Carl Joachim Friedrich |date=1956 |title=Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy |publisher=Harvard University Press |page= |isbn=978-0674332607}}</ref> As anti–Communist political scientists, Friedrich and Brzezinski described and defined totalitarianism with the monolithic totalitarian model of six interlocking, mutually supporting characteristics:

# Elaborate guiding ideology.
# [[One-party state]]
# [[State terrorism]]
# Monopoly control of weapons
# Monopoly control of the [[Mass media|mass communications media]]
# Centrally directed and controlled [[planned economy]]<ref>Brzezinski & Friedrich, 1956, p.22.</ref>