Unwilling to examine the responsibility of Stalinism for the destruction of Soviet Union, the events of 1991 and their aftermath deepened the anti- Marxist prejudices and antipathies of petty-bourgeois left academics.. ..…
“Colbertism” (meaning a system which in its time—along with absolute monarchy—laid the foundations for the capitalist modernity that replaced feudalism), “Jacobinism” (which understood that economic liberalism was the enemy of democracy and that the revolution had to be popular and not strictly..…
Nevertheless, both saw anti-Semitism as identifying a “perfect target” and that totalitarianism operated under German fascism but also in the Soviet Union. . Arendt was a student of (and love with) the philosopher Martin Heidegger, a Nazi supporter and anti-Semite. ..…
In the Soviet Union, anti-religious actions by the state included executing priests, confiscating church property and banning religious literature and proselytization. ... “Believers’ Responses to the 1937 and 1939 Soviet Ce..…
The Bush administration believes one answer is to fund defensive anti-missile systems -- and sell them to U.S allies such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel.. Recently, China, France, Britain, Soviet Union and United States agreed to report to each other on sales of big-ticket military..…
Following its dedication, in 1947, man who had done Roosevelt Square survived Communist, Stalinist, anti- Soviet uprising, Communist revenge, Goulash Communism, and the 1989 triumph of democracy. ..…
The anti-Communist unions, moreover, helped create and support, among other things, a stalwart movement of labor solidarity against communism in Poland and throughout Eastern Europe—a movement that in time was instrumental in overthrowing Soviet totalitarianism. There is a great deal to criticize..…
Many Poles had been inclined to support anti-Semitic parties in the 1930s, and the experience of German and Soviet occupation had not helped.4 . ... Some Home Army commanders feared that arming Polish Jews would ease the spread of Soviet power. ..…
Led by a group of young renegades from Communist ranks who billed themselves as New Philosophers, many New Left intellectuals have rejected Marxism and developed a deep-rooted antipathy toward the Soviet Union. Anti-Sovietism, in fact, has become the touchstone of legitimacy in leftist..…
It wants to pass over Russian Revolution, the existence of Soviet Union, the betrayals of Social Democracy and Stalinism, the rise of fascism, Holocaust, the world wars, the rise and fall of the anti-imperialist movements of the century, and the collapse of trade unions and reformism. In..…
As they have throughout the war, the government carries out repressive measures, including launching an Australian army raid on the Queensland government print offices over allegations of “subversive” anti-conscription material. . Russia, December 20 (December 7, O.S.): Soviet government..…
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