Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...England director of Amnesty International, sets out to write a focused expose on the subject. He does not delve into the inner machinations of the Politburo, nor does he try to second-guess past and present policy-decisions. Instead, he tries to explore the roots and meaning of Soviet dissent; to show how the abuse of human rights actually affects those who do object, rebel and petition. With candid passion, Rubenstein masterfully intertwines the three major strands of Soviet dissident life--the historical, the personal and the legal--to create a three-dimmensional portrait of life under political repression...
...Rubenstein is not purely academic, he blends the historical with the personal for the human rights movements gained force only with the entrace of powerful personalities. Herein lies the power of his book, as he explores the development of dissent through the lives of the important activists. Rubenstein succeeds in portraying the risks involved in participation and what attracted the dissidents. He tells us they were not "ordinary cautious citizens" but often "people with eccentric personalities." But what is more interesting is that those who originally demonstrated were personally affronted, and unable to ignore attacks on their friends, values...
...this manual activity, Reagan pays close attention as Stockman, sitting beside him, leads the group through summaries of proposed reductions. The Bud get Director critiques, harshly, the spending habits of the Export-Import Bank and lays out his proposal. "Anyone have any comment?" Reagan asks. There is virtually no dissent as a large reduction is agreed...
LESS THAN TWO WEEKS ago, the ruling regime in El Salvador executed yet another move to repress all avenues of dissent in the tiny war-torn country: It arrested almost all University deans and professors, rounded up every student suspected of sympathizing with the leftist guerrillas and carted them off to detention centers. As anyone familiar with the policies of Duarte's regime knows, many of these professors and students were undoubtably murdered outright; others are being tortured...
...very much the same whether he had painted or not. For art does not act directly on politics in the way that the engagé wing of the avantgarde, from Courbet onward, expected it to do. All it can do is provide examples of radical feeling and models of dissent, unless it simply wishes to confirm the status...