Word: marxist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shevardnadze denounced the decision by the late President Leonid I. Brezhnev to send Soviet soldiers into Afghanistan in December 1979 to help the Marxist government there fight the anti-communist guerrillas...
...complete undertaken by a Communist Party in Eastern Europe. Not even in Poland, where a Solidarity-led coalition has been governing for nearly two months, have Communists subjected themselves to so radical a purge of their political philosophy. In Hungary it marks the end of the party-state, the Marxist concept of a fused identity that still underpins governments in Beijing, Havana and Bucharest. The party will even examine ways of divesting itself of property acquired during the 40 years in which it and the state were virtually indistinguishable...
...because of his grimly orthodox leadership, "Honi" could boast of giving the German Democratic Republic the strongest economy, the finest industry and one of the best-fed, best-housed and best-educated populations in the East bloc. It was the world's most successful -- or least unsuccessful -- example of Marxist government...
...week. The production, by Sir Peter Hall, former artistic director of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and Britain's National Theater, was a hit in London in December. Yet it took a risky struggle to transfer the show. Redgrave is a fervid member of a radical group called the Marxist Party; she has poured much of her income into its causes and four times stood as a candidate for Parliament representing the Workers' Revolutionary Party. That commitment helps explain why she has endured for more than a decade an unannounced but unmistakable boycott by much of the American entertainment business...
...hegemonic power in an independent Europe. Consider the evidence. The West Germans have built from rubble the most powerful economy in all Europe. Yet an even greater feat may have been performed by the East Germans. They have created a relatively productive economy under the impossible, absurd conditions of Marxist economics. Put these two together and you have what all of Europe understands will be its dominant power...