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- 181: Catherine The Great
- ... the Volga Germans, and she founded new towns (Odessa, for example) and enterprises on the Black Sea. Herself a prolific writer, Catherine patronized arts and letters, permitted the establishment of private printing presses, and relaxed censorship rules. Under her guidance the University of Moscow and the Academy of Sciences became internationally recognized centers of learning; she also increased the number of state and private schools. As a result, the Russian nobility ...
- 182: Bill Clinton
- ... of 1999, William Jefferson Clinton was impeached. As the focus then turned to the Senate, many debates arose. Did the Presidents sexual indiscretion deserve to get him removed from office? Other options such as censorship were debated, but whether or not other options could even be discussed brought disagreement. In the end, the Senate voted against removing Clinton from office, but whether that will be the last of this matter ...
- 183: Benito Mussolini
- ... proceeded in stages to establish a dictatorship by forbidding the parliament to initiate legislation, making him responsible to the king alone. By 1926 he had passed decrees issuing him the force of law, establishing total censorship of the press and suppressing all opposition parties. In 1929 Mussolini made one of his greatest diplomatic triumphs when he concluded the Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Holy See. This settled the 60-year ...
- 184: Margaret Sanger
- ... run-in with the Comstock laws. Anthony Comstock was the founder and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. In 1873, Comstock persuaded Congress to pass a very powerful and encompassing censorship law, the Comstock Act. Moreover, he was then made a special agent of the post office with the authority to open letters, packages, books, anything at all that drew his suspicion. There was no rhyme ...
- 185: Nadine Gordimer
- ... eye. However her international fame and the many major awards which she has received have made it difficult. She has been continually involved on behalf of literature and free speech in a police state, where censorship and persecution of books and people exist. She won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist, and she is one of only nine women to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she did ...
- 186: Margaret Sanger
- ... run-in with the Comstock laws. Anthony Comstock was the founder and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. In 1873, Comstock persuaded Congress to pass a very powerful and encompassing censorship law, the Comstock Act. Moreover, he was then made a special agent of the post office with the authority to open letters, packages, books, anything at all that drew his suspicion. There was no rhyme ...
- 187: Mark Twain
- ... it was met with a mixed review. While the book was rejected in some places saying that the language was rough and more suitable to the slums than to the respectable people it created a censorship that affects this book even to this day(Miller 85). Even while it was being rejected it was being raved about by some of the great authors of that time. Huckleberry Finn was praised by ...
- 188: Lenis, Vladimir
- ... Trotsky in his own thirst for power. Marx had held the view that The key to Communism is education, (New Generation) and the working class must be a learned people. As dictator, Stalin resorted to censorship of all media to consolidate his power (Johnson 114). Had Lenin lived longer, he could have seen Communism through to its ideal state. Nevertheless, even under Stalin, Lenin was virtually deified for having saved the ...
- 189: Karl Marx
- ... his own aims." Finally in 1845 Marx was banished from Paris as a dangerous revolutionary. He wrote satirical poems for revolutionary-democrats. The paper, "Vorwδrts", was attack by reactionary papers asking for government banning or censorship, but instead they banned Marx from Paris. He decided to head for Brussels, where he and Engels joined, in 1847, a group called the Communist League. At the leagues request, Marx and Engels drew up ...
- 190: Galileo 2
- ... holding that interpretation of the Bible should be adapted to increasing knowledge and that no scientific position should ever be made an article of Roman Catholic faith. Early in 1616, Copernican books were subjected to censorship by edict, and the Jesuit cardinal Robert Bellarmine instructed Galileo that he must no longer hold or defend the concept that the earth moves. Cardinal Bellarmine had previously advised him to treat this subject only ...
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