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...Publication Data Backcover Motto Preface Chapter 1: TOTALITARIANISM 1 • What is Freedom? 2 • Life in a Dictatorship 6 • The Nature of Totalitarianism 7 • The Soviet Union: 1917-1984 9 • Totalitarian Foreign Policies 23 (Soviet Foreign Policies: 1917-1984 /  China and Tibet: 1950-1991 /  Sparta and the City States of Ancient Greece)...

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...CONTENTS Publication Data Backcover Motto Preface Chapter 1: TOTALITARIANISM 1 • What is Freedom? 2 • Life in a Dictatorship 6 • The Nature of Totalitarianism 7 • The Soviet Union: 1917-1984 9 • Totalitarian Foreign Policies 23 (Soviet Foreign Policies: 1917-1984 / China and Tibet: 1950-1991 / Sparta and the City States of Ancient Greece) • The So...

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...Epigraph—Why Me? 1 What I Owe to Whom 13 The Beginning 15 The Twin Questions and Twin Inabilities • The Lure of the Forbidden and the Streak of Cruelty • Struggle for Supremacy Over Consciousness—the War Within • Homo sapiens to Homo Deus • In the Melting Pot of Li...

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...iii The War Within –Between Good and Evil The War Within – Between Good and EvilReconstructing Morality, Money, and ... ...iii The War Within –Between Good and Evil The War Within – Between Good and EvilReconstructing Morality, Money, and Mort... ...meswara Challa Dedication to a Daughter In fond remembrance of my daughter Padma Priya Challa, who died, solitary through her life, at ... ...of my daughter Padma Priya Challa, who died, solitary through her life, at the age of 54, on 22nd March 2020. She was innately loving and giving, exce... ...ughter Padma Priya Challa, who died, solitary through her life, at the age of 54, on 22nd March 2020. She was innately loving and giving, exceptionall... ...—I will now meander in theremains of my time, bearing, in the words of the Greek philosopher Aeschylus (Agamemnon, 1602), “even in my sleep pain th... ...’ in print. And yet, there is still hope in humanity because countless people continueto write—and die, unknown and unwept. It is not that they ar... ...ely well-reviewed. Ifelt good when the ordinary next-door-neighbor kind of people said things like,“do people still write books like this?” And it was... ...lem is that we try tocontrol that which is beyond our control. The ancient Greek Stoic philosopherEpictetus once said, “Some things are up to us and s...