Word: ruthlessness
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...Gulag strikes out at the officially idolized figure of Lenin. Solzhenitsyn rejects the Kremlin's thesis that Stalin alone was responsible for the "excesses" of his time. Instead, Solzhenitsyn devastatingly demonstrates that the imprisonment of millions under Stalin was made possible by Lenin's establishment of a ruthless police state. He ascribes the confessions wrung from government leaders at Stalin's purge trials to the work of professional hypnotists recruited under Lenin. Weaving personal testimonies with historical data, he records Leninist purges, Leninist concentration camps and Leninist mass executions...
...Vuong Thuy Kieu. She is beautiful, talented, virtuous-and just headstrong enough to make her interesting in spite of her other sterling qualities. To help pay her family's debts, Kieu sells herself into concubinage and is tricked into becoming a common whore in the house of a ruthless madam. Thereafter Kieu is ravaged, reviled and degraded by a host of villainous men and women. At last, after a rebel warrior who helped her obtain revenge is killed, Kieu throws herself into the Ch'ien-t'ang River. She is rescued by a Buddhist nun and finds...
...primacy in Asia. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, when China was not subjugating its neighbors, its open door allowed the United States and Western Europe to take their toll on Chinese civilization. When China was strong it was consistently imperialistic; when weak, the subject of ruthless imperialism from the West...
Both Krogh and Chapin were prime examples of the key Nixon aides: young, athletic, religious, handsome, clean-cut, bright, ambitious, and tough enough to be ruthless...
...government which rose from the ashes of the old Tsarist empire, whose first leader was an anti-imperialist theoretician, and whose ostensible goal was the liberation of the whole world, come in the year 1968 to be a symbol of ruthless repression and flagrant imperialism...