Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, because they've come to stay, "the Russians," as they're often called, may in the long run be part of the salvation of their new homeland. They joined the aliyah (literally, "the ascent") in order to move up in the world. They didn't leave an expansionist, totalitarian empire that repressed its minorities only to become citizens of a garrison state at war with its neighbors as well as with 1.7 million embittered, disfranchised and mutinous Palestinians...
Being a Historian in a Totalitarian Society: Reminiscences and Reflections--with Iaroslav Isaievych, director of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Lviv. At 4 p.m. in the seminar room at the Ukrainian Institute at 1581 Mass...
...poor consumer products, hideous architecture and the security of a totalitarian state...
...important difference. Uranus is based on a novel by Marcel Ayme, not quite a Nazi apologist but by no means an oppositionist either. He wrote his book as a protest against the communist-led witch hunt for collaborators that followed the war. The film makes the case against the totalitarian intolerance of empowered Stalinism -- in French practice it often amounted to a settling of personal scores -- with persuasive force...
...style of history that the world had been forgetting. The Soviet Union was seized by a sinister anachronism: its dying self. Men with faces the color of a sidewalk talked about a "state of emergency." They rolled in tanks and told stolid lies. The world imagined another totalitarian dusk, cold war again, and probably Soviet civil war as well. If Gorbachev was under arrest, who had possession of the nuclear codes...