Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet opening wedge. Moreover the Red Fleet brought quantities of Moscow newspapers, immediately put on sale in Tallinn kiosks, and curious Estonians promptly bought them up. Off the Soviet cruiser stepped ace Communist Propagandist Vsevolod Vishnevski, announcing that in Tallinn he will deliver a public lecture on "The Soviet Union...
...thanks to the help of the Soviet Union, priests are no longer landowners. Peasants and workers are sharing monastery and church lands. Everybody is entitled to believe or not in God-no compulsion exists...
...Corriere della Sera, leading newsorgan of Italy's Pittsburgh (Milan): "This is the West which retreats in the face of the union of the East-a Bunion which continues slowly reaching all objectives without shots or ultimatums. . . . After seven centuries of battle against Slav influence, the German minorities which acted as sentinels of northeast Europe now retreat, giving up their parts to Russians. . . . The mass exodus of Germans from the Baltic is viewed with feelings of dismay...
Parkes demonstrates that by 1914 the working class had almost universally developed a tradeunion, not a revolutionary, point of view; that the stronger the union movement became, the less revolutionary were its purposes; that the proletariat's size was reduced by machinery, its miseries by reform. Seeing all this, Lenin did not deduce that Marx had been wrong. Instead he formed the Communist Party to lead the working class, not to what it seemed to want but to what Marx had decided it ought to want. And to win the Russian Revolution, Lenin had to diverge from Marxism again...
...Americas." A knowledge of Bolívar, he believes, would go far to explain South Americans' history and temperament, particularly their tendency toward dictatorship. For it was that tendency which set Bolívar's main problems, finally wrecked his great dream of a pan-American union...