Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This suggested to most Moscowites that Yagoda may not have his confession-spouting day in court as a "Trotskyist," may simply be shot by the Ogpu. The Old Bolshevik who knows most about Soviet law is Eugene Bronislavovich Pashukanis, Vice-Commissar of Justice, Director of the Institute of Soviet Construction & Law, editor of The Soviet State, law journal, and author of the Soviet Union's chief standard works on jurisprudence used in its law schools. Suddenly last week all law books by Pashukanis had to be confiscated, Soviet law students and their professors were left stranded. Reason: Old Bolshevik...
Cordon Sanitaire? Not since the late great Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau moved the Allies to draw a "sanitary cordon" around Germany and attempt the same with Bolshevik Russia, have such plans been made as are to go into effect this week to put a watchful ring around Spain on April...
Reputedly Ambassador Davies believes the Old Bolshevik trials have been "on the level." Certainly it would be undiplomatic for him to believe otherwise. Correspondents who accompanied him on his recent Russian industrial tour by private train - (TIME, March 15) paid their rail fare at the Embassy before leaving Moscow and only four went. They were surprised and delighted to be handed back their money afterward, assured that they had been the Ambassador's "personal guests." Before leaving Moscow last week, Mr. Davies predicted a rapid rise in U. S. exports to the U. S. S. R., based this...
...deeply under Stalin's skin has penetrated world-wide suspicion of the Old Bolshevik trials as frame-ups, the Dictator disclosed in a slashing speech delivered secretly to Moscow bigwigs on March 3 and broadcast last week by electrical transcription to all Russia. "It is a rotten theory to say the Trotskyists do not have reserves in the Soviet Union among the remnants of the exploiting classes and among foreign traitors!" came Stalin's voice off the phonograph record. The U. S. translator of Trotsky's works, Max Eastman, was termed by Stalin "a notorious swindler...
...readers will be sure to note his only mention (1915) of the late great Eugene Debs: "And who is Eugene Debs? He writes sometimes in a revolutionary manner. Is he only spineless like Kautsky?" And everyone but Bolsheviks will enjoy this passage, in a letter to ,Maxim Gorky: "Your news that a Bolshevik, although a former Bolshevik, was treating you by a new method, has made me really very anxious. God preserve us from 'comrade' doctors in general and Bolshevik doctors in particular. But seriously, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, 'comrade' doctors...