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...discontent exploded in October 1969. The President was assassinated and Major General Mohammed Siad Barre imposed one-man rule. He moved swiftly to install a Marxist doctrine called scientific socialism, but also gave the country a written language and women the right to vote...
...BURDEN OF THE PAST. Russians already have a great deal of trouble reading the road map of their past. The notion of historical determinism may have been drummed into their heads in courses on Marxist-Leninist dogma, but they have never stopped believing that history moves in a circle, not a straight line. Ask a wrinkled babushka selling vodka on the street about Yeltsin's chances of success, and she will leapfrog back in memory over Mikhail Gorbachev's ill- fated perestroika to recall the doomed attempt by Nikita Khrushchev to break the stranglehold of the Stalinist past. An intellectual...
...calculus of world politics, the Soviet Union had only one credible claim to superpower status -- its immense military strength. The country's domestic economy was always a shambles, and its Marxist-Leninist ideology has long been threadbare. But for decades Moscow relentlessly built up its armed forces to defend communism at home and advance its cause abroad. The military had first call on the nation's resources, and civilians got what was left...
...Carver). This musical must be among the first to feature torture, mutilation and threats of anal rape and is surely the first to portray one character washing another after a bout of diarrhea. Book writer Terrence McNally and nonpareil lyricist Ebb make the points, not always beloved of the Marxist left represented by the revolutionary, that there is no political freedom without sexual freedom and that love outdoes ideology at breeding bravery...
Addressing several current and prospective members of the national Marxist organization, Irene T. Gardner attacked "the general capitalist offensive against women, gays and minorities," According to Gardner, the title of last night's talk, "Family Values Crusade Targets Women, Gays and Youth," refers to capitalism's class system, which subjugates women through the establishment of the traditional family...