Word: dictatorship
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...Yeltsin team often depicts his conflict with the Congress as a struggle between good and evil, pitting democrats against communists and fascists. In reality, most experts believe, there is little chance of a restoration of the old-style Soviet rule. But other forms of authoritarian rule or even a dictatorship bent on reversing the reform process are possible. It is obvious that Russia is not on the fast track to transformation into a democratic, free-market society. The unadventurous new Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin, a veteran industrial manager, speaks of the need for a "pragmatic, down-to-earth" approach...
...distance that can lift a farce above its banal and stereotypical underpinnings never surface. The author's despair and alienation are evident, but we are never given any reason for his whiny melancholia. It is a shame that the truly complex and harrowing aspects of life under a dictatorship are not examined in depth, for instance as in Ariel Dorfman's recent Death of the Maiden, instead of being subjected to this shallow evaluation and empty philosophizing. Instead of entering his world it is tempting to sit back and snicker...
THIS WAS A SPECIAL ELECTION FOR KOREANS, ONE that may well mark the completion of a long march from dictatorship to democracy. By electing former dissident Kim Young Sam, 65, as President, they have put into the Blue House, Korea's presidential residence, the first civilian in more than 30 years...
...case, marking the first instance in which he has assumed responsibility for an investigation of far-right violence. The use of the Hitler salute on the phone, said Von Stahl in explaining his involvement, "indicates that the unidentified criminals wanted to use their crime to help restore a Nazi dictatorship in Germany...
...political spectrum. Whether the messenger is a top government official, a parliamentary leader, a member of an opposition party or an ordinary Russian with a gut instinct, the message is always the same: dark forces are at work devising a scheme to take power and install a dictatorship...