New semantics In 1980, in a book review of How the Soviet Union is Governed (1979), by J.F. Hough and Merle Fainsod, William Zimmerman said that "the Soviet Union has changed substantially. Our knowledge of the Soviet Union has changed, as well. We all know that the traditional paradigm [of the totalitarian model] no longer satisfies [our ignorance], despite several efforts, primarily in the early 1960s (the directed society, totalitarianism without police terrorism, the system of conscription) to articulate an acceptable variant [of Communist totalitarianism]. We have come to realize that models which were, in effect, offshoots of totalitarian models do not provide good approximations of post–Stalinist reality [of the USSR]." In a book review of Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura (2019), by Ahmed Saladdin, Michael Scott Christofferson said that Hannah Arendt's interpretation of the USSR after Stalin was her attempt to intellectually distance her work from "the Cold War misuse of the concept [of the origins of totalitarianism]" as anti-Communist propaganda.
New semantics In 1980 in a book review of How the Soviet Union is Governed (1979) by JF Hough and Merle Fainsod William Zimmerman said that "the Soviet Union has changed substantially Our knowledge of the Soviet Union has changed as well We all know that the traditional paradigm [of the totalitarian model] no longer satisfies [our ignorance] despite several efforts primarily in the early 1960s (the directed society totalitarianism without police terrorism the system of conscription) to articulate an acceptable variant [of Communist totalitarianism] We have come to realize that models which were in effect offshoots of totalitarian models do not provide good approximations of post–Stalinist reality [of the USSR]" In a book review of Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura (2019) by Ahmed Saladdin Michael Scott Christofferson said that Hannah Arendt's interpretation of the USSR after Stalin was her attempt to intellectually distance her work from "the Cold War misuse of the concept [of the origins of totalitarianism]" as anti-Communist propaganda