Vana-Hiina Qini keisririigi valitsemissüsteemi olemusest
On the System of Government in Qin Empire in Ancient China

Summary/Abstract: The article demonstrates that the Inca State was not the first or only early totalitarian state of its kind, we can find an even more obvious precedent for an early totalitarian state from ancient Chinese history, namely in the Qin Empire. The legalist political theory, which was aimed at establishing the ruler’s absolute control over the society and consolidating the central authority, is the first theory justifying totalitarian power known in world history. The authors of the Fajia theory made a number of more or less successful attempts to implement a system of government based on it. The analysis of Sima Qian’s chronicle and the main arguments of the studies based on it shows that in view of the existing knowledge of the foundation and collapse of the Qin Empire, of the structure of its system of government, economic measures, ordering of society, legal system, policy of religion and ideology as well as its armed forces and foreign policy, can certainly be identified as the first totalitarian superpower in world history.

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