5 definitions
Centralization (n.) cleared away the nuisance of hundreds of independent village committees, and with them the village's passionate interest in the war.
Discipline (n.) was imposed on Republican Spain by the Communists not to give the masses' enthusiasm order but to replace the masses altogether.
Liberalism (n.) at its most abstract, worshipped most religiously by right-wing socialists, met Barcelona's wartime bread shortage by restoring private trade, and the women queued from four in the morning.
A Popular movement (n.) cannot say what its deepest impulses are; newspapers are written by Europeanized editors, and the movement speaks only in acts.
Soviet Union (n.) had, by 1936, a revolutionary past but not a revolutionary present.