Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, the post has been largely ceremonial, although its character could well change with the man. Brezhnev is a dynamic speaker and agile politician. In the first months following Khrushchev's death, he and Kozlov might well govern as a duumvirate, sharing state and party control, until the dictatorship again forms its natural pyramid and there is room for only...
Such a deliberate division of favor is what helps Khrushchev maintain his grip on the Kremlin-and helps prevent a peaceful transition of power in the Soviet dictatorship. In that future contest, some other figures must be reckoned with: Senior Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 59, who may be too old for the top job, but whose long party career may make him a kingmaker, if not a king; Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, 63, beefy, belligerent Soviet Defense Minister, who controls the army; Aleksandr Shelepin, 43, ex-boss of the relatively sanitized secret police. Dark horses include Andrei Kirilenko, 55, a member...
...officers of the army, who are likely to be in complete command of Spain if Franco should suddenly die or be swept from office. Their role would then depend on the situation. In case of threatened civil strife, the army's determined leaders will undoubtedly form a military dictatorship to keep order. Otherwise, they will probably favor the monarchy...
...called a 24-hour general strike for this week and another two-day walkout June 18-19. The nation's economic health is rapidly failing, while prices have shot up 40% in the past two months. Argentina is not only proving a dead democracy but also a sick dictatorship...
...march with the goose-stepping Nazis in East Germany," he told the demonstrators. "Go and see what it's like to deal with Soviet police and Soviet tanks, like the Hungarian people. Perhaps you will learn something about the Soviet empire and the Communist dictatorship." Then Gaitskell said publicly what many have known: the unilateralist Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is infiltrated by Communists. "Having failed miserably by free democratic methods, all they can do is to try to deny free speech to others. I am proud to provoke the hatred of those who hate freedom...