Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...devastating civil war was soon to erode the new government's political base and deprive it of popular support. Less than two months after the seizure of power, the remains of the Tsarist army, soon to be joined by 14 foreign powers, attacked the Bolshevik regime and plunged Russia into a state of physical and economic desolation. Those who had lived with hope and excitement through the days of Lenin's victory could not help feeling betrayal and disgust at the severe, quasi-dictatorial methods which the government now employed to deal with an increasingly desperate situation. The miniscule rations...
...sailors had defended the Bolsheviks during the civil war, and they had withstood heavy and constant bombardment of their island fortress in doing so. But in late 1920, as the conflict drew to a close, they were becoming highly sensitive to the wave of strikes and peasant revolts which began sweeping the country with the tightening of the government's reins. "A restless and independent breed who loathed all privilege and authority," Paul Avrich writes in Kronstadt 1921, "They seemed forever on the verge of exploding into open violence against their officers or against the central government, which they regarded...
...rejected the peasants entirely as a factor in revolutionary change-and tended to prefer such groups as the Mensseviks and Social Revolutionaries, who opposed the requisitioning and endorsed equal land ownership and a free agricultural market. Many industrial workers, their unions emasculated and their soviets crucially weakened during the civil war period, had also come to doubt the wisdom and fairness of the party's centralist thinking...
...sound equipment. Though permission may not be denied arbitrarily, standards of reasonableness are still in flux. Chicago reacted to the 1968 Democratic Convention riots by enacting a new law requiring the city to grant or deny permits within two days after applications are filed. The New York Civil Liberties Union wryly advises: "It may be well to apply for such a permit. If you don't get it, you will then have better defense if you are arrested...
...turn of the century to protect the "weaker" sex from harsh working conditions. Now a growing band of lawyers argue that if the laws are used to bar women who want such work, the result is precisely the kind of discrimination forbidden by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Although the ban on sex discrimination was added to that law as a wry joke by Southern Congressmen opposing civil rights for blacks, complaints involving women now make up nearly one-quarter of those brought to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...