Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dictatorship is changing too. As a practical matter, not out of any sudden conversion to democracy, Stroessner now tolerates an opposition, relatively tame though it may be. In the 1963 presidential elections, a nominal opposition got on the ballot for the first time, and by law wound up with an automatic 20 of the 60 seats in Congress. (In Mexico's one-party "guided democracy," the ruling P.R.I, also guarantees some seats to its opposition-but up to 11%, not 33%.) "We allow freedom for all non-Communist political parties," says Edgar Ynsfran, 43, Stroessner's ambitious...
Alexander had drawn his inspiration from the Populists, who abhorred all dictatorship; he and his companions used terror because they saw it as the only answer to the violence of the czarist state. But 19th century Europe offered a great many other forms of revolution to shop among. There were Saint-Simon, Fourier, and the other Utopian socialists, intellectual descendants of a small wing of the French Revolutionary Jacobins. There were the secret societies organized by the followers of Louis Auguste Blanqui, an erratic Frenchman who was the first to advocate dictatorship of the proletariat; the British
...Stalin had as much right as Khrushchev to claim Lenin's heritage, perhaps more. Although he added his personal despotic flourishes, Stalin had learned about terror, about dictatorship, about the total disregard of human life or ordinary human decency, from his master Lenin. In one important respect, Stalin did greatly enlarge upon a force present in Lenin's life only embryonically-Russian nationalism...
...model for the world revolution. For the sake of Soviet foreign policy, he calmly sacrificed the interests of foreign Communist parties-notably including the Chinese party itself. In all this, Khrushchev closely resembles Stalin, even though he took the momentous step of denouncing Stalin's oppressive form of dictatorship...
...Brazilian break in relations with Castro, was in a quandary. How could it square recognition of Brazil with its traditional policy of nonrecognition of governments that came to power through a military coup? In Chile and Peru, some papers fretted over the possibility of a repressive military dictatorship. Washington, which was the first to greet the new regime with "warm wishes," hoped the arrests would not go too far. "Brazil needed cleaning up," said one high official, "but not a witch hunt...