Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Comrade Koba's name was great in Russia, where Lenin called him "Stalin" (meaning "Steel") but he still had a wife. Did she die of pneumonia? Did Stalin divorce her as the story goes, "by mail"? At any rate potent Comrade Stalin, aged 40 came back to Tiflis in 1919, dazzled the 17-year-old daughter of his locksmith friend and carried her back to Moscow. Presumably he married her. Why not?" A story has it that for the first few years of their life together Stalin, the suspicious Asiatic husband, used to lock...
...Calverton's thesis is, as he claims. . . If on the other hand it is what it actually seems. . ." Does the reviewer really suspect Mr. Calverton, like the bolshevik he is, of concealing the thesis of the book from the eye of everyone but the vigilant CRIMSON man? "The author argues that literature should be judged sociologically rather than aesthetically." I thought he argued that there is no such thing as aesthetic apart from sociological judgment. "The sociological conditions which brought about a novel like 'Oil'. . . have passed." It would be interesting, and faintly reminiscent of Mr. Hoover's assurances that...
Almost the only pure fun or vanity sanctioned last spring by Bolshevik Spar tans was the buying and using of lipsticks & rouges sold by petite, blonde Paulina Semionova Molotova, wife of Soviet Premier Molotov and Manager of "Tezhe," the Soviet powder, perfume, rouge & lipstick trust (TIME. June 13). Considered daring in the spring, Paulina Molotova was comparatively a back number when July rolled around, bringing its Annual Congress of Young Communists representing 5,500,000 Red maidens & swains...
Music. Comrades with gramophones (and how prized is the oldest gramophone in Russia!) are now playing them openly at last, inviting their friends to dance and casting off frankly the Bolshevik-Puritan mask...
Schools. One formerly privileged Russian class has suddenly been put to hard labor: schoolchildren. Up to now Bolshevik schooling has favored the modernistic "Dalton System," each child being assigned a "problem" and "encouraged" to solve it. In practice many a Russian schoolchild has loafed under the Dalton System, was growing up illiterate. But last week they loafed no longer...