During the late 1980s and early 1990s, many totalitarian governments collapsed and were replaced by democratically elected governments true or false

It's true.

Explanation:

This was the so-called Third Wave of Democratization, to use a phrase belonging to Harvard political sicientist Samuel P. Huntington. Many authoritarian regimes were replaced by democratic governments in many countries. Latin American dictatorships were replaced by civilian governments, and communist regimes in Eastern Europe and Russia collapsed.