Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added, prose and politics entered the pages of samizdat, but the Soviet authorities cracked down after the 1962 publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," a novel that explores life in a Soviet labor camp. Despite the crackdown, samizdat became increasingly political during the '70s, Garbanevskaya said...
Until his electoral victory, however, Walesa had little real cause for celebration last week. Ever since the first round of the union convention three weeks earlier, Polish authorities had been talking about a possible crackdown and the Soviets had been threatening economic reprisals, if not outright intervention, unless Solidarity curbed its political demands. Walesa and his allies needed to work out some kind of accommodation with the Communist government in Warsaw. In this setting, with the prime responsibility his, Walesa found himself under blistering attack by union members...
From God they may have come, but Matta played a large part in their shaping. The abbot of St. Macarius monastery near Cairo, Matta was summoned to Alexandria by Sadat a week before the crackdown. Sadat and Matta discussed ways of defusing the looming crisis. Sadat asked Matta how far he could push Shenouda. The abbot says he outlined Sadat's limits in dealing with the Pope. When the ouster was decided on, it was Matta who submitted the names of five bishops who would collectively take over the Pope's functions...
...repression of the past, when tens of thousands were indiscriminately shipped off to labor camps or killed. Nor does it seem that China's leaders are preparing to impose anything like the absolute uniformity in literature and art that was ordained during the Cultural Revolution. But the new crackdown has had a dampening effect on many writers and artists who had been hoping that the government would allow ever greater degrees of free expression...
Much of this new stress on ideology and discipline has puzzled analysts who expected a period of relaxation to follow the harsh crackdown earlier this year. One possible explanation for the campaign is the leaders' concern that any slackness could produce the kind of discontent that erupted during the heyday of the democracy movement of 1978-1979. Another explanation postulates a political compromise between Deng and more conservative law-and-order forces within the party. Some analysts speculate that Deng wants to show party hard-liners he is not soft on dissent so they will go along with...