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No detail of resistance is too small for China's hard-line leadership to crush these days, despite the lifting of martial law in Beijing last January. The campaign of repression that followed the June Tiananmen massacre continues unabated, as authorities attempt to roll back all vestiges of "bourgeois liberalization...
For Lenin, it was the violent overthrow of the bourgeois capitalist system.
Such a reaction against impressionism was strong among younger painters of the 1880s. They were led by Georges Seurat, whose Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86, is a manifesto of anti-impressionist aims: a hieratic, pseudoscientific, heavily theorized paean to timelessness, edged with mordant social...
Through this emissary Lukanov made a disarmingly straightforward case: an article identifying him as up and coming, not to mention reform minded, would be a kiss of death. Jealous, older, more orthodox comrades would accuse him of "trying to start a mini-cult of personality in the bourgeois capitalist press...
The next day, Nov. 8, Lenin appeared before the Congress of Soviets, rejected all talk of a socialist coalition government and insisted on an all- Bolshevik Cabinet. He became Premier, with Trotsky as Foreign Minister. This was not because the Bolsheviks were the biggest or most popular party. In elections...