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Former Harvard lecturer in sociology Barrington Moore, Jr., whose study of power structures—and particularly totalitarianism??€”helped shape the field for decades to follow, died on Sunday, Oct. 16, at his home in Cambridge. He was 92. Moore, who was born and raised in Newport, R.I., first started working at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies—informally known as the Russian Research Center—in 1948. He officially joined the Harvard faculty in 1951 and taught until 1979. Moore published his most influential work, “Social...
...Beijing University organized a large scale memorial service for the death of Hu Yao Bang. He had lost his leadership post for his perceived leniency toward students. While the Tiananmen Square massacre demonstrated the power of totalitarianism, it also showed how many people wanted to step out of totalitarianism??€™s shadow...
...released 82 days later under the pressure from the U.S. government and international human rights groups as part of a diplomatic deal. Although I have physically escaped totalitarianism??€™s shadow, China’s new leadership continues to stall political reform, and I have the moral responsibility to continue devoting myself to promoting democratic reform. Despite the appalling experience of prison, I do not regret what I did. I am proud to have righteously challenged China’s totalitarianism, and I cannot and will not remain only an office-bound visiting scholar at Harvard...
...Totalitarianism??€™s biggest vulnerability is that it can never truly gain popular support. Recently, more than 500,000 in Hong Kong bravely took to the streets to protest Article 23, an ugly new law banning treason, sedition and subversion that will be used to strip away the civil liberties that people in Hong Kong, unlike those in mainland China, might otherwise enjoy. Their protests serve as an example for mainland Chinese, who must not expect totalitarianism to disappear on its own and should challenge it actively as my friends and I have...
...hundred thirty years ago, George Washington led the American people out of the shadow of totalitarianism??€”although some may not think of colonial life in those terms. His early activities did not take place far from Harvard Yard. I believe that the American people should support Chinese people as they attempt to step out of the shadow, and I hope students at Harvard today will play an important role in pushing China towards the democratic future that the Chinese people want and deserves...
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