Lecture Sourcing: Origins of Totalitarianism

Sources:

• Hannah Arendt (Routledge Critical Thinkers), Simon Swift, 2009

• Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought, Margaret Canovan, 1992

• Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, edited by Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman, 1994

• Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History: Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide, edited by Richard H. King and Dan Stone, 2007

• Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism, Stephen J. Whitfield, 1980

• The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt, edited by Dana Villa, 2000

• The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt by Seyla Benhabib 1996, 2003 ed.

Antisemitism:
Book II, Chapter 1 of L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution by Tocqueville
Neither Right Nor Left Fascist Ideology in France by Sternhell
Édouard Drumont, The Panama... - Shapell MFJanuary 5, 2025
Blake 1996 Disraeli
Kirsch 2008 Benjamin Disraeli
The House of Rothschild, Vol. 1 Ferguson. 1999

Austria-Hungary:
Green Shirts and Others by Nagy-Talavera. Original 1970
Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs by Evans 2006
Revolutionary Spring by Clark 2024
The European Revolutions, 1848 Sperber 2005

Imperialism:
The Accumulation of Capital (1913) Luxemburg
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Lenin (1916)
The Conditions of “Savages” 04-13-2015 By Michiel Bot

Pan-Slavism:
Pan-Slavism Its History And Ideology Revised 1960 Hans Kohn
Pan-Slavism and World War II Hans Kohn The American Political Science Review, Vol. 46, No. 3 Sep., 1952

For Germany and Pan-Germanism, see my source list from recent video ‘How Fascism Dies’. In particular, see Kershaw’s books and ‘Working Towards the Fuehrer’: https://williamcfox.substack.com/p/complete-list-fascism-books-and-articles?r=2fkhlr

General:
Diplomacy by Kissinger (referenced for Austria-Hungary, Disraeli)

At the start of my research, I watched every replay of two virtual reading groups from the Hannah Arendt Center on YouTube, led by Professor Roger Berkowitz:
2023 (15 episodes)

2019 (18 episodes)

My topical index, made during read-throughs to identify themes and ‘through-lines’ Page numbers are from Library of American expanded edition, edited by Kohn and Wild 2025

Alienation 308,309,394

Austria-Hungary, Dual Monarchy, Danube Monarchy - 103-105, 355, 367, 369, 371, 377, 399, 401, 410, 414

Crushing (motif mainly in ch12) 159-160, kindle 443

Equality as a problem 120, 286, 365, 455-6

Function 204, 346

Hobbes 234-245, 253, 259, 495 (war of all)

Loneliness 260, 441,477, 482 & 158 (boredom, weariness, ennui)

Movement (ie totalitarian movements) 313, 352, 382, 384, 387, 393, 398, 404 [ch8 section 3 is about the movement in this sense]

Movement (ie constant, dynamic, endless action) 239, 244-5, 338, 346, 377, 385, 399-400, 405, 490, 462, 541

Parties Above Parties, Nation 254, 386, 389, 391, 395, 400

Party Politics 181, 204, 386, 392

Spontaneity 379, 385 (personality), 508 (predictability)

Stateless (main section ch9) 206

Superfluous 250, 251, 257, 447