What role does Ideology play in totalitarian political systems?

Ideology plays a very important role in Totalitarian Political Systems. Fascist dictators and communist parties laid out their views on the world, what should be done to make the world a better place and how it should be done. Fascist dictators and communist parties used totalitarian force to attempt to achieve their ideologies.
In this essay I aim to give a brief explanation of the term Ideology, how it emerged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and what it came to mean down to the present day. I will give an account of totalitarian political systems and what they have come to represent and finally I will describe the role Ideology played in the communist states of Eastern Europe whom under Lenin and Stalin adopted the works of Carl Marx and turned it into a totalitarian regime, in Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini and in Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.
The term Ideology was first used by Destutt de Tracey (1794-1836) who was a French philosopher, for Destutt ...