Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mellowed Steel. Before the interview was over Correspondent Duranty brought up a point he had not cared to mention at his only previous interview- with Dzhugashvili whom Lenin nicknamed Stalin ("Steel") because of his violent methods as a Bolshevik terrorist...
STALIN (Djugashvili) Joseph Vissarionovich (born in 1879), an Old Bolshevik,* a professional revolutionist, V. I. Lenin's nearest and most loyal pupil and comrade in arms, a prominent theorist...
...rest of the Soviet sketch of Stalin is chiefly devoted to intensive efforts to depict him, rather than Trotsky, as the No. 2 Bolshevik during Lenin's lifetime. Twenty-three times the twinhood of Lenin & Stalin in doctrine & action is reasserted, despite the well-known "Testament of Lenin" in which the Communist Party was expressly warned by Comrade Lenin not to accept as his successor Comrade Stalin "who is too rough" but to choose "another man who in all respects differs from Stalin, namely one more patient, more logical...
...inside opinions of the Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations. Premier Lloyd George dignified these proceedings by calling Mr. Bullitt a "liar," referred contemptuously to "a journey some boys are reported to have made to Russia." When smug Philadelphia friends called him a "Bolshevik"' and when his first wife divorced him in 1923, Bill Bullitt married the widow of John Reed, the U. S. Communist who went through the Russian Revolution, wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, died of typhus in Moscow and was buried with highest Soviet honors in the Kremlin wall...
...most interesting chapters is "The Last Stand," in which Hindus indicates quite shrewdly the reasons why Protestantism was doomed almost from the beginning. It was nurtured during the early days of the Revolution because of its antagonism toward the Greek Catholic Church whose grip the Bolsheviks were intent upon breaking; but the honeymoon was soon ended. For it became cleared as the Protestant movement developed that its emphasis on the priority of the individual soul, on the recompenses of the Life of Come, on the sacredness of gospels which the Soviet materialists considered so much eye-wash, on the precedence...