Sentences with phrase «by the communist authorities»

What he did in his influential essay, «The Power of the Powerless,» was to propose a form of radical political resistance that refused to play by the rules of the game as set by the Communist authorities.

Havel finished his text in October 1978, shortly before his arrest by Communist authorities.

Happer and his fellow climate sceptical scientists are the Western world's equivalent of the dissident scientists hounded by the Communist authorities in the Soviet era.

Not exact matches

The notice, which calls on local authorities to «create and refine platforms for exposing defaulted borrowers» by the end of the year, was jointly issued by China's Supreme People's Court, the Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, according to the state - run Xinhua News Agency.

And if the recent Communist Party Congress in Beijing was anything to go by, Chinese authorities are worried as well.

In a closed society, typified by communist and fascist countries and by states in which the agencies of government are in the hands of absolutist ecclesiastical authorities, the preservation of the social order requires that the schools be under political control, in order that the official dogmas may be taught and the will of the controlling parties may be implanted in the minds of the young.

A former Communist and Socialist who became an unvarnished anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer, Rassinier did not initially deny the existence of death camps and gas chambers, but he claimed that the number of Jewish victims was hugely exaggerated, and that most of these were in fact murdered by other Jewish inmates who had been given authority within the camps.

At the war's end, following the October Revolution, American authorities saw the threat of Communist revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

A long - standing member of the Communist Party and Vice President of the state - sponsored China Writers» Association, Mo Yan is said to write «within the system» (i.e., in a manner approved of by the Communist Party officials and which avoids criticism of Chinese authorities).

Knowing that China is a Communist country with press freedom unlike western countries, was any part of your book reviewed or censored by the authorities before being published?

Malevich's work was suppressed and destroyed by the Russian Communist authorities because abstraction was seen as a decadent inferior to the favoured artistic mode of socialist realism.

As they were developing and maturing under a harsh Eastern German communist regime, Winker and his colleagues were seen as dissidents by the authorities and were watched by the secret police.

Penck at that time lived in Dresden in Communist East Germany and was barred by the authorities from publicly exhibiting his paintings; Immendorff, residing in the West, enjoyed near total artistic freedom.