Word: intelligentsia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intelligentsia went after Richard Nixon as they have no man in history. Taking a third-rate burglary and building it into a monstrosity, they were able to bring about the downfall of a great man. That he will be vindicated there is no doubt. We may see the greatest comeback in political history...
...that desire was materially translated into the groups of Red Guards who took over the capital, who kept the population up at night with their loudspeakers blasting away at the ideological opponents; but it is clear they consider the dimensions of the revolution--which ultimately enveloped the national intelligentsia--to be the direct result of a power struggle within the highest echelons of the leadership, a struggle so violent it meant bringing all administrative functioning to an end for months, even years, until the battle was resolved...
...account of those experiences, Death at an Early Age, won the National Book Award, became a classic among educational reformers and made him something of a celebrity among the radical/liberal intelligentsia. One factor in the book's popularity, which pictured the Boston school machine as caring little for teachers and teaching, and even less for students, was Kozol's obvious and unaffected compassion: he cared intensely for his students and felt moral outrage at the barbarities of the schools...
...CHIEF OBSTACLE to partition is the MPLA. Of the three factions, only the MPLA constitutes a truly national movement with more than tribal support. The MPLA, led by the native intelligentsia, is strong among workers and the urban poor, but also has widespread support among the coffee growing peasants in the hinterlands. As a movement, the MPLA is committed to a program of direct democracy and radical social change, with an orientation similar to Frelimo's. It's military successes, which have far exceeded its apparent strength, rest on an extensive program of popular political mobilization. The MPLA has organized...
...Pipes bolsters his conservative universe by revealing the failure of the peasants, "those acquisitive little beasts," as a revolutionary force, then his demonstration of how the radical intelligentsia brought about its own demise in the 1880s is the historian's greatest coup. The radicals, fired by the same Western ideas of service to the state that Peter the Great had had a century before and that the Bolsheviks were to have two decades later, tried to revolutionize the state. According to Pipes, police repression was inevitable from the moment the radicals tried to extricate themselves from the entire...