📚 Totalitarianism

Books with totalitarianism on their catalogue record, first published between 1933 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject totalitarianism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,349 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Origins of Totalitarianism	Hannah Arendt	1951	64
	Totalitarianism dictatorship and autocracy	Carl Joachim Friedrich	1956	27
	On Tyranny	Timothy Snyder	2017	21
	The end of economic man	Peter F. Drucker	1939	18
	Nothing to envy	Barbara Demick	2009	16
	The origins of totalitarian democracy	Jacob Leib Talmon	1952	14
	Democracy and dictatorship	Zevedei Barbu	1956	13
	The politics of mass society	William Kornhauser	1966	12
	Terror, Love, and Brainwashing	Alexandra Stein	2016	11
	Democracy Incorporated	Sheldon S. Wolin	2008	9
	Liberty or equality	Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn	1952	8
	Sociologie des sociétés industrielles	Raymond Aron	1961	8
	From Luther to Hitler	William Montgomery McGovern	1941	7
	The Origins of Totalitarianism	Hannah Arendt	1958	7
	The Psychology of Totalitarianism	Mattias Desmet	2022	7
	Permanent revolution	Sigmund Neumann	1942	6
	Izobretenie Val'sa	Vladimir Nabokov	1966	6
	The menace of fascism	John Strachey	1933	5
	Permanent revolution	Neumann, Sigmund	1942	5
	Road to reaction	Herman Finer	1945	5
	The ultimate weapon	Oleg Anisimov	1953	5
	Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1	Hans Maier	2004	5
	Totalitarian Democracy and After	Yehoshua Arieli	2014	5
	The dual state	Ernst Fraenkel	1941	4
	Totalitarianism	Leonard Bertram Schapiro	1972	4
	The Stalinist Legacy	Tariq Ali	1984	4
	Dismantling tyranny	Ilan Berman	2005	4
	The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958	John Pollard	2014	4
	The freedom to be free	Marshall, James	1943	3
	Tentation totalitaire	Jean François Revel	1977	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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