tragic memory of Europe's totalitarian regimes

The years 1920-1930 saw the emergence of a political phenomenon unprecedented in history: totalitaranism, which led to the greatest tragedy that Europe had ever known. Totalitarianism was born in Russia in 1917 by the Bolsheviks, an extremist revolutionary party led by Lenin. This new regime was imposed by dictatorship, terror and civil war laying the foundation of the totalitarian system