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...many of the few dozen Bolsheviks agreed with their leader's violent policy. Said leading Marxist Scholar Plekhanov: "Raving madness." But because Lenin's "April Theses"-put into effect the following October in the Bolshevik coup d'etat -had stood the bitter test of 40 years, Vyacheslav Molotov was claiming, at long last, his right to share Lenin's fame...
...last month of the campaign alone, Pibul made 150 speeches for his Seri-Manangasila (Free Stone Seat) Party, including a few on TV.* And as proof of his new convictions, he turned over to the police his treasured copy of The Technique of the Coup d'Etat...
...this was somewhat surprising in a man whose political handbook ever since his student days in France has been a volume called The Technique of the Coup d'Etat. But the real shocker came when the Thai strongman informed his countrymen that they were free to organize political parties and start campaigning for the 1957 parliamentary elections...
...cylinder to cylinder, from roller to roller, from ball to ball, from dinner to dinner, and, with each day that passes, flattens him out a little more." The genius of the Romantic movement had "lost his way" and might never have found it again if the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon (which Hugo fought in the Assembly, then in the streets) had not caused him to flee into exile...
...forced into exile in Red China. A series of conflicts with would-be rivals in the army and navy ended in June, 1951, when Pibul's army joined forces with the police of his ex-rival, General Phao Sriyanandh, to put down a naval revolt. A bloodless coup d'etat the following November was used as an excuse for Pibul to appoint 51 per cent of Thailand's single House...