Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camille Bornerie, ex-Communist newsman, recalled that in 1937 the Communists received $1,000,000 from Russia for propaganda purposes, concluded: "I don't know why L'Humanité started this trial. When you are a Bolshevik soldier, there is nothing dishonorable about receiving money from the Soviet Union...
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 10: Professor Merle Fainsod will lecture on dictatorship in relation to the government 115. Although this course will touch briefly on the history of dictatorship itself, the emphasis will be on the Bolshevik Revolution. The course meets in Emerson...
...historical framework: the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia broke loose from Russia after 1917's Bolshevik Revolution, became thriving little democracies (total population: 6,000,000). In June 1940, Soviet troops, cops and commissars invaded and occupied the three nations. Driven out by the Germans in mid-1941, the Russians returned in 1944. Since then, the Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians have lived under the Communist heel...
...regard themselves as "second-generation Communists" - too young to have been bomb-throwers in Czarist days, but old enough to have been hardened on Stalin's anvil. Said a German Foreign Office man who met Khrushchev in Moscow: "He is one of the best examples of the young Bolshevik - like Malenkov a fat, brutal, intelligent fonctionnaire, a new type created by Stalin: undogmatic, unintellectual, but effective rulers...
Cold War Fanned. Later in the week, at the celebration of the 36th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, old Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, spoke in bellicose tones. "It is known to all," said he, "that through the zealous efforts of aggressive circles in the U.S.A., the cold war continues and is being fanned briskly . . . The imperialist camp ... is conducting a policy of preparing...