Word: insurrectionism
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Hook's most recent example of the event-making man is the Marxist hero, Nikolay Lenin. Hook disagrees with historians who read the Bolshevik Revolution into history as inevitable. What insured the successful culmination of the revolution was the fact that the individual hero, Lenin, was present. The evidence...
Bulgaria. Some 25,000 arrests, 36 executions reportedly followed open insurrection and revolt. The insurgents were pro-Russian, many were proCommunist. The underground Communist newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo attracted enough notice to be frequently quoted in the Swedish press. Railroad and police stations were attacked. Telephone and telegraph communications between Bulgaria...
The Magyar counts and the Admiral stared despondently from their high windows and saw Europe and its New Order disintegrating. They saw ahead more dull, humiliating months as errand boys to Hitler, then fine chances for insurrection and chaos. They wondered what they could do about it.
Out of the Balkan lather of ethno-pathology two facts bristled last week: the turmoil in Bulgaria and Rumania approached open insurrection; German activity in the Danube Valley was concerned with more than the recruiting of new divisions for the Russian front.
Hermanns placed some blame for the lack of insurrection against German domination in France upon the United States. He stated that if the United States had recognized De Gaulle, the people of France might have taken heart. "The Nazi Gestapo would not have had been able to become entrenched in...