Metodele formării conştiinţei sociale în statul totalitar: Rolul manipulării psihologice
The Methods of Shaping Social Consciousness in Totalitarian State: the Role of Psychological Manipulation

Summary/Abstract: The establishment of totalitarian regimes in 20th century in Europe has been significantly caused by socio-economic development of the European countries. Then the relevant changes of social consciousness have made it possible to control by totalitarian parties all social spheres, not only military, economic and political ones, but also the sphere of interpersonal relations in society. One of the most important opportunities for totalitarian parties is the opportunity to make an influence on mass psychology in order to get the support for totalitarian movements, and to cultivate its features in order to legitimate totalitarian regimes. The methods of ideological influence, mass propaganda, and party organization aimed at manipulation of public consciousness, played the key role in the legitimating of totalitarian governing

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