Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yet for Moscow it was a necessary exercise, both in terms of the immediate question of the Soviet future in the Middle East and the larger one of its standing vis-à-vis the U.S. in this 50th anniversary year of the Bolshevik Revolution. While the Soviets have been making...
Russia can take some comfort from the divisions inside the Western Alliance and some victories in minor skirmishes, such as the U.S. backdown on the U.N. payments issue. But perhaps the prime Soviet accomplishment in recent years is that, compared to the buccaneering days of Stalin, Russia has become respectable...
To many French intellectuals, this scientific determinism seems to fill the void left by the failure of humanism. The world Communist revolution failed: the proletariat did not dispossess the capitalists or God. Existentialism failed: numerous reversals in the political causes it supported have exposed the fragility of the notion that...
Anguilla is hardly the proper setting for revolution. A 34-sq.-mi. coral dot in the Leeward Islands east of Puerto Rico, the island has rested languidly for 300 years under British rule. Without electricity or telephones, the 5,000 Anguillans earn a meager living from fishing, working a salt...
In his early days, Max Eastman was a fiery socialist editor (the Masses, Liberator), a dedicated sexual adventurer and a noisy defender of Communism. Since the 1940s, he has been a sometime roving editor for the Reader's Digest, a proclaimed expert on Russian skulduggery, and a boastful chronicler...