Citations with the tag: POLITICAL purges
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- Stalin's purge of Soviet astronomers.
McCutcheon, R.A. // Sky & Telescope; Oct89, Vol. 78 Issue 4, p352Discusses the historical data that has become available about the fate of Soviet astronomers from 1936 to 1938 and that of their families. The purges; Astronomers under arrest; Astronomers in the gulag. INSET: The Soviet press then and now..
- Introduction.
Dvor�kov�, Vladim�ra // Lustration & Consolidation of Democracy & the Rule of Law in Cen; 2007, Issue 5, p11The article discusses various reports published within the book "Lustration and Consolidation of Democracy and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe," including one on how lustrations, coping with the past, and transitional justice has been addressed in certain post-communist countries,...
- Book reviews.
Cheek, Timothy // Pacific Affairs; Fall95, Vol. 68 Issue 3, p422Reviews the book `Politics and Purges in China,' by Frederick C. Teiwes.
- Special elections, voting district among projects for tribal election office.
DONOVAN, BILL // Navajo Times; 2/7/2013, Vol. 52 Issue 6, pA-9The article reports on the move of the tribal election office in Window Rock, Arizona to launch major projects including special elections for the vacant 59 positions and purge of Navajo voters.
- Ex-Sebelius aide purges FDA office.
J. G. D. // Medical Marketing & Media; Feb2011, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p28The article reports on the purging of several senior specialists in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) office in the U.S. which was conducted by associate commissioner for external affairs Beth Martino to make room for younger people who were closer to Martino.
- Purge in North Pyongan Province sends shockwaves throughout N. Korea.
J. G. D. // East-Asia-Intel Reports; 10/5/2011, p12The article reports that officials of the Workers' Party of Korea in North Pyongan Province, North Korea were purged following the charges of corruption, which has sent shockwaves through the national party apparatus. As stated, the purge included forcing from office the head of the provincial...
- From Russia, with soul.
Brothers, Barbara Jo // Psychology Today; Jan/Feb93, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p26Discusses that all psychology in Russia should be viewed with three factors in mind: the nature of the Russian soul, the current state of the Russian economy, and the incredible number of losses in Russian families due to Stalin's purges. Difficulty in understanding Russian soul; The cataclysmic...
- ROBESPIERRE OF THE RIGHT.
Grann, David // New Republic; 10/27/97, Vol. 217 Issue 17, p20Discusses the efforts of conservative activist Paul Weyrich to purge the U.S. Republican Party of members who are not true to the party ideology. Role of Weyrich in the alliance of the Republicans with evangelical Christians; Accusation of Weyrich against several members of the party;...
- Russia.
Grann, David // America; 6/15/1918, Vol. 19 Issue 10, p228The article focuses on the letter sent by the daughter of a Russian diplomat to her former schoolmate about the dim condition of events and her suffering in 1918 in Petrograd, Soviet Union. According to the letter, she stated that the government has demolished all laws, the police, land...
- Qatar purges leadership.
Grann, David // Geo-Strategy Direct; 7/19/2006, p15The article considers Qatar's attempts to purge its leadership of Al Qaida-aligned Wahabi members. The rehabilitation has been conducted in cooperation with the U.S., which has established an increasing military presence in the emirate. The purpose of the Qatari purge was to assure that Al Qaida...
- The Purge (Book).
Sullivan, Ann H. // Library Journal; 7/1/1986, Vol. 111 Issue 12, p82Reviews the book 'The Purge,' by Herbert Lottman.
- EPIZOD �WSCHODNI� W POLSKIEJ POEZJI LAT 1955-1957.
Detka, Janusz // Respectus Philologicus; 2010, Vol. 17 Issue 22, p106The author deals with one of the main topics of the thaw of 1956, focusing on the rehabilitation process of Stalin's terror victims (the purge) and the renewal of the repatriation of Poles from the Soviet Union in the middle of the 1950's. All these mentioned events acquired quite a big social...
- La depuraci�n de los funcionarios p�blicos de la Diputaci�n Provincial de Vizcaya (1937-1939).
ARIZTIMU�O, ASCENSION BADIOLA // Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie V, Historia Contempor�nea; 2010, Vol. 5 Issue 22, p397This article is a historical approach to the repression suffered by public employees under Franco`s rule during the aftermath of the civil war, during the period between 1937 and 1939. I have chosen The Provincial Administration of Vizcaya was a illustrative example to explain that repression...
- UN purges.
Williams, Ian // New Internationalist; Aug2002, Issue 348, p6Reports on the campaign of the Bush administration to purge the United Nations (UN) of those civil servants deemed out of step with Washington. Impact of the reappointment of former Irish President Mary Robinson on the U.S. government; Position of Robinson as the UN High Commissioner;...
- Trouble in the Sticks.
Williams, Ian // Time; 5/4/1953, Vol. 61 Issue 18, p45The article discusses the purging activities in four Soviet republics. It mentions the involvement of Russian Police Chief Lavrenty Beria in tightening the security and consolidating the governments of the Baltic Republic of Latvia, the Moldavian Soviet Republic, the Caucasian Mountain Republic...
- The District People's Congresses and Political Reform in China.
Derleth, James; Koldyk, Daniel R. // Problems of Post-Communism; Mar/Apr2002, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p15Focuses on the factors hindering political reform in China. Implications of the shift of power from the Communist Party to governmental institutions; Role of the National People's Congress; Impact of decentralization of political power.
- STALIN APPEASES HITLER.
Krivitsky, W. G. // Saturday Evening Post; 4/29/1939, Vol. 211 Issue 44, p12The article focusses on the night when the chief of Nazi regime, Adolf Hitler's first blood purge broke out on June 30, 1934 and at the same time Joseph Stalin, Soviet Government head, called an extraordinary session of the Politbureau in the Kremlin. Hitler's purge was interpreted as a...
- Personal reflections on Van Jones.
Jealous, Benjamin Todd // New York Amsterdam News; 9/10/2009, Vol. 100 Issue 37, p13In this article, the author discusses his personal reflection on the premature resignation of Anthony Van Jones from U.S. President Barack Obama's administration. He says that Van Jones' absence deprived Americans the chance to have green jobs. He also notes that Van Jones is not the only target...
- THE WEEK.
Jealous, Benjamin Todd // New Republic; 4/21/52, Vol. 126 Issue 16, p6The article reports and comments on current events making news during the week of April 21, 1952. A number of items are covered including anti-colonial unrest in Tunisia and the reaction to it by the United Nations, a political purge in Czechoslovakia and an economic conference that took place...
- Not To Be Trusted.
T.R.B. // New Republic; 9/1/47, Vol. 117 Issue 9, p3Discusses socio-economic and political developments involving the United States. Purge campaign in the U.S. State Department; U.S. officials' concern caused by economic crisis in Great Britain; Drop in exports in June 1947; Democrats' contribution to the strength of conservative Republicans.
- Frustration Law.
Sajaia, Nana // Transitions Online; 3/15/2010, p5The article reports that around 2000 Georgians have signed their names to a group created on the social networking web site Facebook to support the adoption of a lustration law in Georgia. It informs that strained relations with Russia since the 2008 war in South Ossetia, as well as opposition...
- Speaker Urges Purge.
Shields, Yvette // Bond Buyer; 5/13/2009, Vol. 368 Issue 33114, p9The article reports on the proposal of a purge of individuals appointed to state agency jobs and commissions by former governors Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan by House Speaker Michael Madigan in Illinois. Madigan estimated that about 3,000 people whose appointments needed Senate approval or...
- Why I Deserted the Soviet.
Alexeev, Kirrill Mikhailovich // Saturday Evening Post; 6/26/1948, Vol. 220 Issue 52, p18The article discusses the author's experience of hiding from the Soviet secret police in the U.S. after breaking with the regime of Joseph Stalin. Most of the author's friends were shot in the murderous purges ordered by Stalin, including the father of his wife. Although he decided to disown the...
- The Bolshevik Who Believed in Tanks.
Budiansky, Stephen // World War II; May/Jun2011, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p25The article features Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a Bolshevik hero of the civil wars following the 1917 Russian Revolution. In 1937, he was secretly arrested on Joseph Stalin's orders and was tried and shot in his cell the next day in the basement of the Lubyanka. Tukhachevsky formulated the deep...
- LOUISIANA.
Budiansky, Stephen // Campaigns & Elections (1996); Oct2007, Vol. 28 Issue 10, p22The article reports that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has filed a civil rights lawsuit in Louisiana, challenging a purge of voters believed to have registered in other states after Hurricane Katrina. The NAACP alleges the purge violates federal law...
- Which Way Will France Go?
Bess, Demaree // Saturday Evening Post; 11/18/1944, Vol. 217 Issue 21, p20Focuses on the efforts of French General Charles de Gaulle to hold the balance of his power in France and the balance of power of France in Europe. Establishment of a widespread purge by de Gaulle; Demand of French Communist for de Gaulle to extend the political purge even beyond his own...
- Beyond the Halfway House.
Bess, Demaree // Time; 7/15/1966, Vol. 88 Issue 3, p50The article focuses on the conspiracy to obstruct Yugoslavia's social and economic changes which have swept the nation for ten years. Yugoslavian President Tito called a 155-man plenum of the Yugoslav Central Committee which discovered that the leading plotter is Vice President Aleksandar...
- Onisifor Ghibu (1883-1972).
Constantin, Ion // Arhivele Totalitarismului; 2012, Vol. 20 Issue 76/77, p264Onisifor Ghibu was one of the first victims of Stalinist purges in the universities. On March 22, 1945, he was arrested and imprisoned for 222 days without a trial at Caracal political prisoners' camp. In 1956, O. Ghibu was arrested and sentenced by the Military Court in Sibiu for a memoir he...
- Vyrovnávanie sa s minulosťou v Portugalsku a na Slovensku: dve strany jednej mince.
Bezák, Tomáš // Politologicka Revue; 2012, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p39Transitional justice is relatively young field of comparative social sciences but it managed to attract considerable scholarly attention. Samuel Huntington's Third Wave is often mentioned as one of the most important titles related to how countries deal with former oppressor. Influence of this...
- The Moscow Purge Trials: 1936 and 1937-38.
Golay, Michael // Great World Trials; 1997, p231An encyclopedia entry for the 1936-1938 Moscow purge trials is presented. Three groups of old Bolsheviks were charged with murder, terrorism and political deviation. The proceedings perfected the confessional trial where the accused publicly recant. Most of the accused were executed and was used...
- Politics & Purges in China (Book Review).
Buck, David D. // Library Journal; 2/1/1980, Vol. 105 Issue 3, p402Reviews the book 'Politics & Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-1965,' by Frederick C. Teiwes.
- SHOULD PRESIDENTS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES? PRO.
Hopkins, Harry L. // Congressional Digest; Oct38, Vol. 17 Issue 10, p245The article presents a speech by the author regarding the usage of "purge" by the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to extend his campaign further for a third term. According to the author, Roosevelt should not be meddling with local issues between members of his own party as that would gain...
- SHOULD PRESIDENTS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES? CON.
Johnson, Hugh S. // Congressional Digest; Oct38, Vol. 17 Issue 10, p248The author speculates to the possibility of a change in the President's attitude towards the Congress as a result of the primary elections. The author is doubtful whether Franklin D. Roosevelt's astonishing personal popularity with the great majority of the lower income classes has slumped...
- SHOULD PRESIDENTS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES? CON.
Johnson, Hugh S. // Congressional Digest; Oct38, Vol. 17 Issue 10, p251The article presents an editorial issue of September 15, 1938, where the author expresses the opinion that the purge proved that if U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt continues to attempt to force one man rule, then he has chances of loosing his popularity. The man for whom Roosevelt...
- SHOULD PRESIDENTS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES? CON.
Johnson, Hugh S. // Congressional Digest; Oct38, Vol. 17 Issue 10, p252The article reproduces a writing in the New York Herald-Tribune of September 18, 1938, according to which Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of U.S., has permanently weakened his own influences among the masses by his attempted purge. President Roosevelt's strenuous efforts to purge the Democratic...
- SHOULD PRESIDENTS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES? CON.
Krock, Arthur // Congressional Digest; Oct38, Vol. 17 Issue 10, p253In this article, arguments are presented against the viability of U.S. Presidents' participation in congressional primary elections. It also explains that the U.S. political system and tradition are stronger than the political purges of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of U.S. According to the...
- SHOULD PRESIDENTS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES? PRO.
Krock, Arthur // Congressional Digest; Oct38, Vol. 17 Issue 10, p256The article predicts the election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a third term. Numerous correspondents have given their opinions on the so called Presidential purge. The editorial of Washington Post's September 20, 1938 issue, sums up the opinion as an unwarranted encroachment by the...
- Deng strikes back.
Watson, R.; Liu, M. // Newsweek; 6/5/89, Vol. 113 Issue 23, p30Talks about the recent protests in China and how leader Deng Xiaoping, 84, has gained the upper hand and begun purging the government of moderates, including Zhao Ziyang. Zhao refused to join the hard line against student protesters. Others to be purged; Important political players. INSET: An...
- The Polish Purge.
Watson, R.; Liu, M. // New Republic; 5/25/68, Vol. 158 Issue 21, p15Focuses on the political purge in Poland signifying a decay of totalitarian regime. Responsibility of regime failure in Warsaw, Poland; Details of the political situation after regime failure; Report that the idea of a Jew-ridden Polish communist apparatus was soon taken over by the Partisans,...
- EGYPT-SECURITY.
Watson, R.; Liu, M. // Middle East Reporter (Daily Edition); 10/25/2011, Vol. 199 Issue 5202, p13The article reports on protest made by 10,000 Egyptian police officers outside Egypt's Interior Ministry demanding 200 percent rise in pay and purge of former regime officials. It states on the corrupt practices being followed inside the ministry and favoritism offered to the high ranking...
- From Journalist to Spy Chief.
Sikorski, Radek // National Review; 12/3/1990, Vol. 42 Issue 23, p25Reports that Poland interior minister and Office of State Security chief Krzysztof Kozlowski faces the challenge of transforming a security services organization that had been the arm of the Soviet Union into a loyal and effective security force. Purge of generals, departments, and personnel;...
- Cracks Emerge In Opposition Camp.
Sikorski, Radek // Latin America Monitor: Andean Group Monitor; Aug2006, Vol. 23 Issue 8, p5The article reports on the purported rift within the Uni�n por Per� (UPP) coalition, Peru's political opposition party, after its chairperson, Ollanta Humala, lost in the recent presidential elections. The split in UPP membership gave President Garc�a an advantage in Congress, thereby...
- From now on, the buck stops here.
Trimble, J.; Auster, B. // U.S. News & World Report; 10/2/89, Vol. 107 Issue 13, p40Reports that, despite Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's purge of the Politburo, he is still no closer to solving his country's ethnic and economic problems. His recent actions.
- NATION BUILDING AND NATIONAL CONFLICT IN THE USSR IN THE 1920's.
Smith, Jeremy // Ab Imperio; 2001, Issue 3, p221Jeremy Smith's article discusses the attitudes of the United Opposition and the Right Opposition to nationalist challenges to the Soviet regime and examines major conflicts in Georgia, Central Asia, and Ukraine as well as the basis and nature of smaller conflicts at the local community level...
- Spreading Purges.
Smith, Jeremy // Time; 4/12/1968, Vol. 91 Issue 15, p49The article reports on the spreading political purges to engulf people in other walks of life in Warsaw, Poland. It mentions the Polish government's criticism and dismissal of several executives serving the country such as deputy foreign trade minister Jozef Kutin, nuclear energy officer Wilhelm...
- ‘The Trash Who are Obstacles in Our Way’: the Italian Fascist Party at the Point of Totalitarian Lift Off, 1930–31.
Morgan, Philip // English Historical Review; Apr2012, Vol. 127 Issue 525, p303The article discusses the history of the Italian Fascist Party (PNF), with a particular focus on the PNF's efforts to determine its role in the Fascist totalitarian system. According to the author, PNF National Secretary Giovanni Giuriati's legacy was both the idea that the state should not have...
- An Instinct for the Orient.
Morgan, Philip // Time; 9/9/1966, Vol. 88 Issue 11, p82The article features "Times" Hong Kong, China reporter Robert S. Elegant, who is regarded as one of the best second-hand news gatherers in the country. It states that Elegant is well versed in Chinese history and language. It says that he was the first reporter to forecast the purges in 1966 and...
- SHOULD PRESIDENTS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES? PRO.
Morgan, Philip // Congressional Digest; Oct38, Vol. 17 Issue 10, p245The article presents a speech by the author regarding the usage of "purge" by the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to extend his campaign further for a third term. According to the author, President Roosevelt should not be meddling with local issues between members of his own party as that...
- SHOULD PRESIDENTS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES? CON.
Sullivan, Mark // Congressional Digest; Oct38, Vol. 17 Issue 10, p255The author presents his opinion that President Franklin D. Roosevelt's purge has left the Democratic party without any leadership. According to the author, President Roosevelt had announced, and undertook to carry out expulsion of a large portion of the party. By the failure of the President...
- DANCE WITH THE ONE WHO BRUNG YOU.
Sullivan, Mark // American Conservative; 1/29/2007, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p4The article focuses on the stand of Congressional Democrats on the U.S.' war against Iraq. According to a survey by CBS Broadcasting Inc., seventy two percent believed that the Democrats will decrease the troop levels in Iraq or may seek to withdraw them from the country entirely. On the other...
