TY - JOUR AU - AB - Significantly, we have few if any studies of the totalitarian O dictator as a personality type. It may be that we are little closer to a working psychological model of him than Plato took us with his brilliant sketch of the ideal type of the “tyrant” in The Republic. The contemporary literature on totalitarianism does, of course, contain materials that are relevant to the problem of characterization of the totalitarian dictator. Yet no frontal attack appears to have been made upon the problem. The purpose of the present article is to argue the need for one, and to do this in the context of a critical reexamination of the theory of totalitarianism. In the course of it I shall put forward some ideas of possible use in developing a conception of the dictator as a personality type. TI - The Dictator and Totalitarianism JF - World Politics DO - 10.2307/2009322 DA - 1965-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/crossref/the-dictator-and-totalitarianism-Ua1NFivv4r SP - 555 EP - 583 VL - 17 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -