Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's reluctance to meet Soviet offers is rooted in fears of incompetence, Bolshevik indoctrination, and generally unorthodox behavior. While officials do not doubt student's ability to see through an obvious intellectual bias, they do feel that Harvard has little responsibility to waste a course on an unknown quantity...
...incompetence, however, need not be the main criterion for the University's decision. Members of the Russian Research Center and professors of Slavic history and literature are certainly well enough versed in Soviet scholarship to pick an acceptable professor. Nor need the University fear wasting a course on Bolshevik bias. If it invited a professor in any scientific field, except perhaps atomic physics, there would be little opportunity or reason for distortion. And a Soviet professor who taught history or literature would probably attempt to conceal any bias in an attempt to prove that Soviet scholarship is respectable. An American...
Civil War Hero V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko (he led the Bolshevik attack on the Winter Palace in the 1917 uprising in Leningrad) was recalled from Barcelona where he was a Soviet military adviser during the Spanish civil war, hauled out of his train by the NKVD. so the story went, and shot beside the tracks...
...long list of artists to suffer the fatal derision of Nazi Germany was one of Germany's greatest sculptors, Ernst Barlach. He died in 1938, shunned by his townspeople, condemned (falsely) as a Jew and Bolshevik. His work, based on the centuries-old tradition of wood carving and German Gothic art, was banned as "degenerate" and typical of "the passive Slav soul...
With the Soviet leaders now openly pledged to retwist Stalin's twisted chronicles of the Bolsheviks (TIME, March 5), Natalia Sedova Trotsky, widow of assassinated (in 1940) Old Bolshevik Leon Trotsky, crept out of limbo in a Mexico City suburb to announce that she has sent two messages to the Kremlin. Her goading requests: 1) Whatever happened to her engineer son Sergei, last heard from in Moscow some 20 years ago? 2) When will the Soviets honestly rewrite the history of denounced "Traitor" Leon Trotsky and of his "deviationist" son Leon Jr., who died mysteriously after an operation...