Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...momentous trip for mankind. For in gay, cosmopolitan, highly civilized Vienna the young German nationalist from the Alps suffered for the first time three new urban experiences that profoundly influenced his future: the slum proletariat, Social Democratic trade unions, Jews...
...foreigner had been honored before - with black-bordered flags above the Kremlin, with memorial broadcasts and exhibits. Varvara Kruichkov, the war-widowed chambermaid who had dusted the President's apartment at Yalta, remembered his friendly "Spasibo - Thank you," and paid the tribute of all the proletariat: "He was a great man." In Moscow's streets people said to Americans: "Kak Zhalko! -What a pity!" And they asked: "Who is this Truman...
...proof of his undeviating orthodoxy, Stalin might point to the definition of democracy in Leninism: ". . . The dictatorship of the proletariat is the domination of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie, untrammeled by law, based on violence, and enjoying the sympathy and support of the toiling . . . masses. . . . Democracy under the capitalist system is . . . the democracy of an exploiting minority. . . . Democracy under proletarian dictatorship is . . . a democracy of the exploited majority...
...November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power. Said Lenin, at the second All-Russian Congress of the Soviets: "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order." The most stubborn fact in modern history had turned up: in a country continental in size, one class (the proletariat) had repudiated democracy and, guided by a monolithic party, rushed in the name of Communism toward the totalitarian state...
...multiple causation" theory. The metals in the Roman State-owned mines ran out. As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased. The State dole of grain brought men into the cities to join the workless proletariat, and the spoil of Spain, Gaul, Syria and Egypt made Romans think less and less about making fortunes through honest labor...