Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purchase of the Trotsky papers. Metcalf recognized the immense historical value in obtaining the archives of a practicing revolutionary and when he learned that the papers were available he went out to look for money. He found a wealthy businessman, an alumnus, who was strongly interested in anti-communism, and Metacalf decided to tackle him. With the $10,000 he obtained Metcalf was able to make Trotsky an acceptable offer...
...effort to control the situation in Asia, which is essentially futile because it is contrary to history. We cannot control it because we are not an Asiatic power. The control, or dominant influence, must be exercised from within; that is what the end of colonialism means. If Chinese Communism is to be contained, forces from within Asia must do it. Hitler could not have been defeated if there had been no force opposing him from within Europe...
...policy has proved consistently costly, dangerous and in large measure ineffectual. After World War II, the Soviet Union scored tremendous gains, principally the Communization of Eastern Europe accomplished by the Red army. In due course, the West was compelled to acknowledge these gains and stop thinking about "rolling back" Communism. On the other hand, Moscow's grip on its satellites grew dramatically weaker. And beyond its original World War II conquests, Moscow won virtually nothing in the way of further Communist takeovers, with the sole exception of Cuba. Quite apart from Communism, Russia has achieved far less than...
...camera shows waves of grass rippling idyllically -then cuts to another angle to show the backdrop of an ugly industrial town behind them. The film message is that there is room at the bottom for workers who still believe in the drab clichés of doctrinaire Communism. As the film's central figure, Jan Kačer plays a slogan-spouting, blockheaded factory worker -a model product of the Stalinist old regime. Representing the newer, more relaxed style of Communism are his cheeky blonde mistress (Jana Brejchová) and an impudent young cynic (Josef Abrh...
...early days, Max Eastman was a fiery socialist editor (the Masses, Liberator), a dedicated sexual adventurer and a noisy defender of Communism. Since the 1940s, he has been a sometime roving editor for the Reader's Digest, a proclaimed expert on Russian skulduggery, and a boastful chronicler of his youthful capacity for hell-raising (Love and Revolution...