Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's too broad a question. It is probably because we didn't fulfill the slogans we proclaimed in 1917: "Power to the Soviets," "Land to the peasants," "Factories to the workers," "Bread to the hungry." Authoritarian leadership and therefore a lack of democracy have led to a certain apathy among the people, to a sort of civil nihilism, a skepticism. And to all this we must add the mistakes of the cult of personality. That's just one part of the problem...
...intolerance towards minority organizations whose purposes are primarily social. He has confused the desirable goal of integration of public institutions and activities with a mistaken expectation of a fully integrated private social life. A free society should move towards equal access in the public arena, but only an authoritarian society would restrict its members from associating with one another according to personal inclination...
...revolt follows a festering dispute within the ruling Colorado Party between a militant pro-Stroessner faction and traditionalists who want to distance the 100-year-old party from the unpopular, authoritarian general...
...bureaucracy. Its precipitous postwar decline took place precisely as it was shedding its empire. Thatcher engineered Britain's dramatic renewal in the 1980s, when it had one of the fastest growth rates in Europe, by going after not defense spending but the sclerosis that had set into the system: authoritarian unions, failing state-owned industries, a paternalistic bureaucracy and, by example and rhetoric, the British class system itself...
...same time, Salinas must go beyond mere rhetorical fluorishes in making a commitment to democracy, take on the entrenched "dinosaurs" and bureaucrats of his own party and enable opposition parties to compete on an equal basis in the electoral process after more than a half-century of authoritarian PRI rule. By reneging on his promises for political democratization, Salinas would give his opponents every reason to sabotage his economic policies and threaten the country's future political stability...