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Poles have revolted countless times against their oppressors, only to fail heroically. Almost every generation of Poles for the past century and a half has risen in arms. This penchant for rebellion???evident again in Solidarity?prompted Karl Marx to call Poland the "thermometer of the intensity and vitality of all revolutions since 1789." Successive occupations and uprisings, moreover, gave Poles a deep-rooted mistrust of foreign-imposed governments and sharpened their skills at organizing broad-based conspiracies. It also increased their pride in the past. Many of Solidarity's buttons show the Polish eagle adorned with the crown that...
Chairman Hua thus tacitly conceded that he could not guarantee the loyalty of all the 4,000 delegates expected to attend the congress. Despite a vigorous, yearlong purge of opponents of his regime, there is still some resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion???on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members?traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many...
...GREEN CORN REBELLION???William Cunningham?Vanguard ($2). Grim and unusual novel based on a tragically futile uprising of Oklahoma farmers in 1917. written in a manner reminiscent of the work of Erskine Caldwell...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE;?Bernard Shaw's version of rebellion???half psychology, half melodrama. Sophisticated snorers had best instruct the ushers to wake them before the last act in which Roland Young's performance is more than worth any half hour's sleep...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?Bernard Shaw's version of rebellion???half psychology, half melodrama. Sophisticated snorers had best instruct the usher to wake them before the last act in which Roland Young's performance is more than worth any half hour's sleep...
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