Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tell the words he's Bolshevik...
Told the bud's a Bolshevik...
Spread the word. "They are Bolshevik! New York Times, January...
Then several things happened to change the fashion. Zhdanov died. His old enemy Malenkov succeeded to the place of favor at Stalin's right hand, and Voznesensky disappeared-apparently clean off the face of the earth. P. Fedoseev, editor of the official magazine Bolshevik, was suddenly bounced out of his job for having praised the Voznesensky book, which, it now seemed, was nothing but "an idealistic motley of loose opinions . . . showing a total and absolute break with Marxism." What awful thing had Voznesensky said? He wrote that the Soviet system works so well that ordinary economic laws of price...
...tempestuous vigor of his story tends to blur the fact that few of Soloviev's characters have any individual flavor or depth. Mark Surov is more a window opening on to Russia than a credible person; most of the others are stock villains or victims. Only the Old Bolshevik Volkov, apparently modeled on Nikolai Bukharin, comes to life. And appropriately, it is he who carries the meaning of the book: "We, my boy," he tells Surov, "are the victims of our own crime...