Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from their many predecessors; in 18 years of independence, Syria has had 15 coups, eight of them successful and almost all bloodless. But last July, when there was an uprising by rebels supporting Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, the difference be came clear. Baathist Strongman Hafez smashed the revolt and slew 27 Nasserite leaders - the first such mass execu tion in modern Syrian history. Warned Hafez: "Let them think twice before trying again. And if they try, let them be ready...
...seems likely that China's revolt came in reaction to Stalinist-style subordination. As the poorer partner, China industrializing had everything to gain by an equalitarian relationship with industrial Russia. Soviet charges that the Chinese arbitrarily harassed the technicians sent there are hard to believe. The accusation that the Chinese see virtue in poverty is a palpable lie which Soviet spokesmen cannot document by reference to any Chinese publication or statement...
...Bill Some Day. The story of the split is riddled with similar paradoxes; only a few years ago, spartan Peking was championing precisely the kind of economic liberalism Khrushchev now promotes, and at the time of the Polish revolt against Moscow in 1956, it was the hard-line Chinese who urged caution on Khrushchev, who was all set to crack down as he had on rebellious Hungary...
...sailors of Kronstadt, who had helped to bring about the revolution and to dissolve the Constituent Assembly, rose against the Lenin regime, crying: "Enough shooting of our brothers!" Lenin crushed the revolt. By conservative estimate, 5,000,000 died in the first few years of his rule. But Lenin realized that the time had come for changes. Politically, the regime stayed as dictatorial as before, but he instituted the New Economic Policy, a right turn toward partial capitalism that gave groaning Russia a brief respite. It was to be among Lenin's last official acts...
...former French colony to keep an eye on things. Back in power, Mba and his advisers felt it best to allow opposition candidates on the ballot in last week's long-delayed election; it had been Mba's systematic stifling of the opposition that had triggered the revolt...