Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JTNANIMOUSLY elected Premier of Russia last week, replacing Georgy Malenkov: Old Bolshevik Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin...
...Soviet rulers have had trouble with the pea santry from as early as 1917-21 when the new Bolshevik regime was in danger from a civil war. To secure the needed food for its soldiers, the authorities seized agricultural produce wherever it could. This, of course, caused the peasants to grumble and become alienated from the revolution. In 1921 peasants in Krondstadt and Tambov rose in rebellion, partly because of this arbitrary requisitioning...
Last week Security Chief Cassity explained why he blackballed Wolf Ladejinsky, famed U.S. agricultural attache in Tokyo (TIME, Jan. 3). Ladejinsky, who fled Russia after the Bolshevik revolution (leaving three sisters there), vigorously opposed the Reds. His anti-Communist record, including articles in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, stretches back over 20 years. It turned out that Cassity suspected Ladejinsky of being another Mortimer Gooch. "You can't tell anything about a security problem by appearances," he said...
...editor, whose father was in the diplomatic service, was born in Le Havre, France. Five came from England, two from Australia, one from Canada and one from Hong Kong. One was born and educated in Moscow, where he became a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute before the Bolshevik revolution forced him to flee to France, and eventually to the U.S. As for formal education, some 60% of TIME'S editors hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, and six, a master's. Fifteen of our editors went to Harvard, seven to Princeton...
...kind of bark that Joseph Stalin, at that time in the middle of his struggle for power, liked. Three years later Vishinsky was State Prosecutor in a series of trials of former Bolsheviks charged with treason, terrorism and various crimes against the state (i.e., 'Stalin). The technique of confession was now brought to its highest point. Revolutionaries of the toughest fiber yielded easily to Vishinsky's interrogation. "You son of a pig and a bull," he shouted at Bolshevik Theorist Bukharin. In his summing up, he cried: "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains! We cannot leave...