ABSTRACT
These lectures have been called a sociological analysis. This means that the argument is neither that of the politician nor of the fieldworker. I shall avoid the purely political approach because, the problem being highly topical, such a treatment would lead us at the very beginning, instead of to an analysis of facts, to a quarrel and perhaps, I am afraid, to a regular fight, for which the lecture room is certainly not the proper place. Neither do I aim at a purely descriptive analysis of the existing totalitarian states as fieldworkers used to do, because others who have studied these societies on the spot have done it much better than I could do.
