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...apparently it is not going to be pretty. Not all local communists advocate violent overthrow of the government, but the RCP is not shy about the means that will be necessary to bring about a classless society...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: As Communism Falls Around the World, Local Radicals Vow To Stay the Course | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

...Social Democratic Workers' Party, later to become the Communist Party, consisted of just nine delegates representing four labor unions, a workers' newspaper and the Jewish Social Democratic Bund. The nine delegates met in Minsk on the first three days of March 1898, proclaimed themselves a party, called for the overthrow of the Romanov rulers and then returned to their homes, where eight of the nine were promptly arrested. The fact that the heirs of this absurd little group actually did overthrow the Russian government not 22 years later was due largely to the malign genius of one man who wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Headed for The Dustheap | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...Short of a palace coup, at this point the hardliners have no way to oust Gorbachev," Pipes said. "His control of the Party is too great to allow them to overthrow him by political methods...

Author: By John M. Bernard, | Title: Political Reforms Needed For Gorbachev's Survival | 2/7/1990 | See Source »

However, Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, sharply disputed the claim that Kremlin conservatives cannot musterthe strength to overthrow the Communist Partyleader...

Author: By John M. Bernard, | Title: Political Reforms Needed For Gorbachev's Survival | 2/7/1990 | See Source »

...headquarters in exile, Mandela stayed behind to set up the A.N.C.'s underground military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) and launch a campaign of sabotage. After 17 months on the run, he was caught in 1962. He was convicted in June 1964 of attempting to overthrow the government along with seven others in the Rivonia trial. His sentence: life in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: At the Crossroads | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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