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Khrushchev came of peasant stock; he possessed a peasant's shrewdness and wit--a garrulous, storytelling gift the newspapers called earthy; what they meant was that he referred to excrement a lot. With only two years of schooling, he had a fierce, uncouth animation that was shadowed by feelings of intellectual inferiority...
...herself promptly shot.) One theory among good communists was that Lenin, who was just 53, had simply worked himself to death; he had driven himself hard, especially for a son of such a prosperous family. (One of his grandfathers had been a landowner with personal control over 40 peasant families...
...routed the American-backed forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. As Mao waited, Guo dispatched a comrade to find a piece of red satin and write "Chairman" upon it in gold. That crisis averted, Mao stood on the rostrum above a massive portrait of himself and announced in his peasant brogue, "The central government of the People's Republic of China is established!" "Long live Chairman Mao!" answered the crowd, which began cheering soldiers fresh from battle as they marched in the new country's first military parade. Guo stood behind Mao and wept for "a victory won with...
...discussions between prisoner and jailer about Buddhism and revolution offer an unprecedented opportunity to peer into the origins of mass dementia. Even as his minions are starving and bludgeoning their prisoners to death, Douch tells Bizot, "The revolution wishes nothing for (the people) besides simple happiness: that of the peasant who feeds himself from the fruits of his labors, with no need for the Western products that have made him a dependent consumer." When Bizot points out that Cambodian peasants are destitute of almost everything, including imports, Douch is deaf to him: years before the triumph of the Khmer Rouge...
...originally scheduled for May 1, to allow the parties more time to reach agreement. Going It Alone poland Prime Minister Leszek Miller defied calls by the opposition Civic Forum to hold early elections following the collapse of the coalition led by his Democratic Left Alliance. The split with the Peasant Party (which refused to back a road-tax bill) leaves Miller 19 seats short of a majority in the 460-member lower house of parliament. Death's Big Comeback MIDDLE EAST Renewed suicide bombing and the installation of a new Israeli hard-line coalition set back hopes for peace...