Word: anticommunist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economics, authoritarian politics and social engineering, is attracting attention as a model modern society. Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History?, says the "soft authoritarianism" of countries like Singapore "is the one potential competitor to Western liberal democracy, and its strength and legitimacy is growing daily." Tiny anticommunist Singapore (pop. 3.1 million) has even found an ardent fan in mainland China (pop. 1.16 billion), where officials are studying the city-state for ideas on how they can throw off Marxist economics but keep dictatorial political control...
...contest the election, including one with the Stars and Stripes as its symbol. Hun Sen's ruling communists have renamed themselves the Cambodian People's Party, but find it hard to escape their Marxist, pro-Vietnamese history or reputation for corruption and brutality. Their principal competitor is the nationalist, anticommunist party founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler...
Topics include the "Cold War, anticommunist crusades" and Malcolm X, whose autobiography is discussed in class this week...
...professor resembles the broken-spirited figures in anticommunist plays by Pinter or Havel, ready to comply with anything just to end the humiliation and pain. His ugly spiral downward is at once outlandish and entirely plausible, and it had this audience member virtually leaping out of his chair in fury at the injustice and unreason. Whatever the bumps -- and there are a few in Mamet's staging of his text -- the power to incense, like that to sadden or amuse, is reason enough to cheer for the future of the theater...
...written testimony submitted to the court, Pipes, a well-known anticommunist historian, said he cited historical examples to "confirm the judgment of [Russian President Boris] Yeltsin" that the Communist Party was not a real political party...