Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priest must all satisfy the authorities in order to remain in place. This means that prelates are frequently required to promote policies considered to be in the Rumanian national interest. In grimmer days, pulpits were often used as platforms for political exhortation. Patriarch Justinian dutifully denounced the 1956 Hungarian revolt, and Chief Rabbi Rosen likewise excoriated NATO for arming West Germany. Nowadays, the clergy tends to have more innocuous, often worthy, obligations, such as raising money abroad for the victims of last spring's disastrous Rumanian floods...
...area, they adopted their own rations, set their own rules, and began to enact an already agreed-upon political program: the creation of a strong, independent, self-governing soviet that guaranteed extensive intellectual and personal liberties. But the sailors never really attempted by themselves to spread their particular revolt, forcibly or otherwise. They leafletted sporadically in the Petrograd area and in the end felt somewhat betrayed by the city's inaction, but they never strove to move their experiment beyond the island fortress. They believed instead that the revolt would generate itself in most other areas, such were the depths...
...mass of strikes and rural unrest that nearly brought the regime to its knees. As winter set in, supply levels in the major cities approached subsistence levels and the populace began blaming the party for all the misfortune. Labor protest crippled Petrograd in February 1921, and peasant revolt flared as never before. The government deftly maneuvered itself out of these crises but nevertheless felt the blow, and at a party congress in March, Lenin finally introduced the agricultural liberalization that was to become the cornerstone of his New Economic Policy...
This somewhat mystifying reluctance to extend the revolt negates the official Bolshevik reaction to the initial uprising-that it was a reactionary plot. It is possible, in fact, that the Soviets believed the Whites were behind it all, particularly in the early days of the two-week revolt when reliable information was hard to come by, when local newspapers were reporting fallacious rebel bombardments of the mainland and, in one case, a sailors' seizure of Petrograd. But it is precisely this spontaneous characteristic of the revolt, its self-imposed locality, its conformity, in fact, with the Bolshevik catchword 'soviet,' that...
...SENSE, this reasoning may be inadequate when applied to the Kronstadt revolt itself: the war was over, the people were clamoring for an end of centralism, and the demands of the mutineers were certainly justified. But from another point of view, the conditions of war still existed: resources were scarce and needed to be carefully handled, and that meant there had to be a national as well as a local reckoning. And, more immediately, the enemies of the Soviet republic, inveterate as they were, still sought an opportunity to topple the government...