Word: alexei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexei Stakhanov, a skilled pneumatic drill operator in the Donbas Coal Trust sector, was discovered by the Soviet Press this year to be performing prodigies, soon was raised by Bolshevik puffs to the status of a "Hero of Labor." Russians read that Stakhanov increased his output of coal five-fold by "Stakhanovism." What he did was 'to organize a gang of three miners with such teamwork that Stakhanov, the skilled pneumatic driller, was able to spend all his time drilling out coal, while the others did the propping and panting. By this means the three got out enough coal...
Modest Miner. Such stories of ogreish engineers are part of the now far-advanced Soviet Press effort to sell speedups to Russian workers as something of which they should be proud, while still picturing speedups as wicked in Capitalist countries. Recently 3,000 Stakhanovites of both sexes, including Comrade Alexei Stakhanov himself, were feted in Moscow by the Dictatorship and Joseph Stalin. Reported the official Pravda, "Stalin spoke briefly for about an hour...
...University this week is certainly not Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." True, the essentials of the plot remain, and such changes as have been made are justified by the necessity of condensation. But the spirit of the original has been lost and the characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more successful with Vronsky, although...
Soviet efforts abroad to create an impression that Dictator Joseph Stalin no longer tries to foment the World Revolution of the World Proletariat were again upset in Moscow last week by the Communist Party's official Propaganda Chief, candid if clumsy Comrade Alexei Ivanovich Stetsky...
...like the climate of California. I found acting much more pleasant than law." After being considered as a leading man for Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, he was given minor parts in The Woman Accused, Murders in the Zoo, Under the Tonto Rim and Little Women. Count Alexei in The Scarlet Empress is his first important role...