Word: authoritarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free to demonstrate that "reality is complicated, varied and colorful" -even though true Communist art should reflect "the facts of revolutionary life." Carrying out this new literary policy, the People's Literature Publishing House has reissued Pa Chin's famed 1931 novel Family, a saga about the authoritarian family system in pre-Communist China. A kind of Chinese equivalent of Gone With the Wind, the novel was the basis of many film and theater versions until it disappeared from circulation in 1965. In a postscript to the new edition, Pa Chin, 73, has obligingly provided a dutiful apologia...
...Cassius in Julius Caesar. Though the world has made a villain out of Cassius, the leader of the plot to kill Caesar, the scion of political iconoclasts knew that he was really a good fellow. "Cassius was sympathetic to me," he says. "He hated tyranny and he was anti-authoritarian." Also, he adds, "Cassius was the smartest man in the play...
Those "services" include a necessity to deal with students not as potential lawbreakers but as members of a diverse community that traditionally values dissent, the report says. Consequently, the University police must choose between the "authoritarian" Gorski approach and a policy of "selective enforcement," it adds...
revolution, bureaucracy and Russian tradition. Revolution, once but briefly, was everything; years ago tradition and bureaucracy defeated it. The Revolution has ended by instituting a new form of authoritarian state, quite reactionary, now ruled by a gerontocracy (average age of Politburo members...
Since the CIA-backed coup that brought him to power in 1953, Shah Mohammed Pahlevi has ruled Iran with a ruthless authoritarian hand. It is now estimated that over 300,000 people have passed through the Shah's prisons in the past 20 years, and that an average of 1500 people are arrested each year. Professors and political dissidents critical of the regime are brutally tortured, and the Shah's police monitor all aspects of public activity...