Word: totalitarianism
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...PSYCHIC MOLD. Historians have long contended that a totalitarian system developed in Russia because its people were too servile to enjoy the blessings of democracy. Anyone who has watched as waves of debate roar through the chamber of the Congress of People's Deputies knows that this is simply not true. The Russian is more than a democrat; in his heart of hearts, he is an anarchist. Russia's rulers have lived in constant dread of the kind of spontaneous, popular uprisings that troubled the czarist era and set off the Bolshevik Revolution. After the communists came to power, others...
Russia is not the only part of the former Soviet Union to find the transition from totalitarian rule to democracy rocky. The new states have learned that it is not enough to establish a presidential form of rule if there are not local democratic traditions to sustain it. During the past year, new Presidents have been overthrown in the former republics of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. In the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan, President Saparmurad Niyazov is reviving the tradition of the communist personality cult, complete with marching columns of youths dressed in T shirts emblazoned with his portrait...
When the Berlin Wall came down on Bush's watch, he seemed the beneficiary of Reagan's massive defense buildup. Conservatives said that buildup had brought down the mighty U.S.S.R. -- though they had earlier claimed that totalitarian regimes never undergo internal change. The strain of a half-century of conflict could give way for Bush's new world order...
When residents learned that Eliot had joined Berry's totalitarian campaign to remove paper cups from Harvard's dining halls, we protested. And within 24 hours, the cups were returned to a jubilant dining hall. Score one for the Convenience Crowd...
...actually did vote on a single issue in 1989--John Silber. I have this thing about totalitarian, racist, misogynist men running for state offices. I voted against him in the primaries. I even headed up to a caucus meeting at the Peabody School to try to get Harvard students elected to the state convention so that they could pick Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy to run instead. But we didn't succeed...