1 | In these conditions, created by dictatorship, the vocabulary of revolt could not but concentrate on dictatorship - and its downfall - in a political discourse, and no more. | |
2 | That country is now living under a military dictatorship. | |
3 | Autocracy often causes the people to revolt. | |
4 | The alliance delivered little of that, as evidenced by the military dictatorships and civil wars that plagued the region soon after. | |
5 | To give that up, indeed even to embrace Chinese-style economic modernisation, would bring on the regime' s collapse. |