Search Details

Word: marxist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...world was wholly for the bad, is undoubtedly the century's dominant figure. The ideas of Karl Marx were of little more than philosophical importance until 1917, when Lenin applied those ideas with revolutionary force and established the Bolshevik Party throughout the government. Bolshevik Russia became an example to Marxist revolutionaries everywhere and energized nationalist reactionaries, of whom the most important was Adolf Hitler. Hitler's ideological war on the Soviet Union devastated Europe. After Lenin's death, his followers in Europe, Asia and Africa created other Bolshevik regimes that propagated regional wars, fostered terrorism and destroyed economies. Not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 100: Who Should Be the Person of the Century? | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

BORN April 22, 1870 1903 Forms Marxist Bolshevik Party 1917 Leads the revolution, heads new Soviet government 1918 Bolshevik Party changes name to Communist Party Died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 100: Who Should Be the Person of the Century? | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Thaci started his political life in the student union of Pristina University in the late '80s, associating with a radical Marxist-Leninist group that previously had ties to Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. After graduating with a degree in history in 1991, Thaci grew impatient with political conspiracy as a way to kick Slobodan Milosevic out of Kosovo. In June 1993 he and his compatriots turned to military action. Along with his two most trusted associates, Kadri Veseli and Fatmir Limaj, he launched one of the first armed attacks against Serbian forces. By the time Kosovo's rebellion gained traction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democracy School | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...brought hopes of integration to the Philippines, Brazil, Africa; messages of healing to Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Germany. To Latin America he brought his intense love of the individual soul -? and his formidable anti-Communist and anti-totalitarian credentials ?- to denounce (and effectively wipe out) Liberation Theology, a Marxist-leaning Catholicism swelling up in the land of Che. Just last January it was Cuba, Il Papa face-to-face with El Jefe, quarrelling (rather adroitly) not so much with Castro?s vestigial brand of communism but with the low state of Cubans under it. "When was the last time a pope really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope, the Church and Change | 6/18/1999 | See Source »

...every confirmed Marxist in the Class of'49, there were at least three liberals contentwith being ascribed to the moderate left...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Red-Baiting Escalated in Late 1940s | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next