Word: insurrectionism
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Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, he had been the second most powerful man in Soviet Russia and Lenin's obvious successor. At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed leader of the abortive revolution of 1905. In 1917 he returned to Russia...
To Anguillans, however, the end of colonialism did not mean the end of outside domination. They bristled when Prime Minister Robert Bradshaw, sitting in St. Kitts, refused to allow them to set up local governing councils, and they decided to hit back. In March, they chased out the island'...
In 1945, who said: "The family is higher in Russia than in the United States, and God, looking down from heaven, may be more pleased with Russia than with us"?3 Or, in 1947, after an inspection tour of China: "The Chiang Kai-shek government cannot put down an insurrection...
Such logic is not new, and it is not stifling dissent now any more than it did in the past. Rusk's words could have been used by President McKinley during the so-called Philippine Insurrection at the turn of the century, when 70,000 U.S. troops sought to...
At All Levels. It was a speech particularly attuned to its audience. Westmoreland noted that "I have seen many of you in Viet Nam during the last three years"-and might have added that a good number of those who saw the battleground at first hand came away supporters of...