title: The Language of Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes
abstract: No wonder, totalitarian societies were under the scrutiny of political scientists and philosophers of the post-World War II period.Fascism and Communist party in the Soviet bloc were extensively investigated by the brightest scholars of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt 1973, Friedrich and Brzezinski 1965, Huntington and Moore 1970, Linz 1975.Huntington and Moore (1970) provide most comprehensive classification of one-party systems based not only on theoretical propositions but also on empirical r