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Trotsky's letters disclose a new and fascinating personal dimension of the revolutionary genius who, as Lenin's right-hand man, led the Bolshevik armed forces in the October 1917 revolution. After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky lost a struggle for power to Stalin; this ended...
One of his first acts was to purge the Iranian broadcast media of Western-style artists and music. "They all love to talk," one expert says of the Council members, and alliances within the group shift dramatically from issue to issue.
Despite the clamor, there is little chance that Iranian students as a group will be forced to leave the U.S. Though it is currently in the process of deporting 4,300 Iranian nationals on grounds that they have broken immigration rules, the Carter Administration has ruled out mass "summary" expulsion...
Saddam Hussein's consolidation of power has included the arrest last July of 67 Cabinet members, politicians and government employees in an alleged conspiracy against the new regime; 21 officials, including a Deputy Prime Minister, were executed for treason, but the rationale for the purge remains a mystery. The...
Saddam Hussein has frenetically tried to build up his personal image in the wake of the purge. His public activities are front-page news in the government-controlled press. His photographs are everywhere. This extravagant cult of personality seems designed to broaden the political base of the new President, particularly...