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...Stalinism, just Stalinism, all over again," he added. "Fifteen years ago, they would have been brought before a board of the secret police and been sent to Siberia or shot. The trial they had was public and what was said there is common knowledge by now among the intelligentsia...
Development towards Pan-Africanism is then split up into four stages. In the first stage Armah describes how the African intelligentsia lost its influence when local priests and chiefs were defeated by Christian Imperialists. In the second stage the intelligentsia was deeply influenced by a recognition of its own impotence and only acted in humble obedience to British superiority...
...third stage was marked by an increased demand for some kind of partnership with the colonial powers by the native intelligentsia. Local leaders joined with the feudal elite and the growing middle class in an effort to demonstrate their collective power. The United Gold Coast Convention was formed, but Nkrumah soon split away from the UGCC to form a mass movement called the Convention People's Party...
...Niagara). He could not bear, he said, to be "a hired boy," and he resigned in 1929. By then, the World was approaching its end-which Swope helped to bring on. Sensation seekers came to feel the paper was too pretentiously intellectual, and defected to the tabloids. The intelligentsia found it lightweight, and defected to the Times and Herald Trib une. Swope had got out just in time...
...View of Vesuvius. Then, suddenly, came fame. Chekhov liked his early stories; Tolstoy was delighted by his crude force ("You . . . are a real peasant!"). Moscow's intelligentsia embraced the tall, stooped figure in high boots and belted black tunic. Gorky's wildly onomatopoeic Song of the Stormy Petrel became the battle anthem of the revolution, and soon he was hip deep in politics: setting up capitalist pigeons for Lenin to pluck, polemicizing both for and against the Bolsheviks. During the Leninist purges following the October Revolution, Gorky used his special relationship with Lenin to save many writers...