Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev sent his warm congratulations to Husák. So did most of the other East Bloc leaders. Predictable protests came from the West, the loudest of them voiced by the West European Communists, who had seen in Dubček's liberal form of Communism an opportunity to enhance their own appeal to voters in their own countries...
Even so, Dubček's ouster represented the culmination of a tragedy for Czechoslovakia. Dubcek had not sought to overthrow Communism; he wanted only, in his words, "to give it a human face" by removing needless abuses and brutalities. For a time, it seemed as if the tall, soft-spoken Slovak might succeed. Channeling a groundswell of discontent among both intellectuals and workers against the Stalinist regime of President and Party Boss Antonin Novotny, Dubček in early 1968 managed to overthrow the old order and institute the most far-ranging reforms and freedoms that had ever...
...Asian comrades. They have now brusquely read them out of the international brotherhood. "The Communist Party of China is no more," wrote Izvestia. "The Maoist rally is actually the first congress of a new organization which has nothing in common with the Communist Party of China or with international Communism...
Died. Max Eastman, 86, lusty lion of the left until the late 1930s when he became disenchanted and turned his literary talents to exposing Communism; of a stroke; in Bridgetown, Barbados. Tall, handsome and charming, Eastman captivated women (three marriages, numerous self-publicized affairs), yet nothing equaled his youthful love match with radicalism. In World War I, as editor of The Masses, he preached so violently against U.S. involvement that he was indicted (but not convicted) for sedition. In the 1920s, he traveled to Russia, where he became an intimate of Trotsky, but disillusionment came with Stalin's terrorism...
...just World War I. You name the issue; Feuer makes a tie-in. Fascism: Student Leader Karl Pollen and his dagger-wearing elitists "set back for a generation the liberal aspirations of the German people . . . The heritage of the German student movement of 1817 was transmitted to the Nazis." Communism: Russian students "stood back perturbed and bewildered," says Feuer, when the Bolshevik Revolution finally occurred...