Authoritarian Regimes Vocabulary

noun A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

• During World War II, millions of people were imprisoned in concentration camps by the Nazi regime.
• I can't believe my great-grandfather survived a concentration camp during the war.
• That party was so crowded, it felt like a concentration camp in there.
• Being stuck in traffic for hours felt like being in a concentration camp.

noun a political theory advocating centralized control of economic and political matters under a dictatorship

• Stalinism was the political and economic policies implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union.
• Some people still debate the impact of Stalinism on Russian society.
• I heard that guy is really into Stalinism, like he's obsessed with it.
• The strict rules and control in that company make it feel like a form of Stalinism.