Word: czarism
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...must have winced last week as that longtime scourge of the Republican right wing, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, during a U.S. Bicentennial ceremony in Frankfurt, lashed out at the Soviet Union. "We find ourselves faced with a new and far more complex form of imperialism, a mixture of czarism and Marxism with colonial appendages," he said. He warned that "a continuing attempt is under way to organize the world into a new empire in which the Soviet sun never sets...
...attempt to prove his theory about socialism, he stated that "Russian czarism was actually a form of socialism." When a disenchanted questioner asked if the strong central control in Formosa and Spain did not provide fine spawning grounds for Communists, he quickly replied, "they have a parliamentary form of government." An unheard voice recalled that "Russia also has a parliament...
...Master Is the Master." Unlike his contemporaries, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev was a "Westerner," and he he thought Russia should copy the ways of of the industrialized West. Many of his novels, e.g., Fathers and Sons, Rudin, revolve around the political experiences of young Russian intellectuals discontented with czarism - and with the melancholy aftermaths of their disappointed loves. But his first prose work, and his best, lives on as a radiant example of pastoral charm that often overshadows Turgenev's concern for social injustice...
Tevye the dairyman was really a simple soul. He lived quietly in a Russian village during the early days of the century, when Czarism was cracking and the old Jewish communal life had begun to crack, too. All he wanted from life was a chance to sell his butter and cheese, an occasional glance into the Old Testament or the Talmud, and some reliable husbands for his sprouting daughters. "The Lord," he sarcastically remarked, "wanted to be good to Tevye, so He blessed him with seven female children ... all of them good-looking and charming . . . like young pine trees...
...destroyed Russia's institutions and tried to impose a form of society of which 99 Russians out of 100 had never heard, which had not been tried anywhere, and for which Russia was called unfit by the very men who had invented this idea of society. If Czarism needed an Okhrana, clearly the Bolshevist state would need a super-Okhrana to fill the larger social vacuum...