Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolshevik officials were not amused by his exuberance during his student days at the University of Leningrad. In 1921, when he was 15, they gave him two months of solitary confinement for leading demonstrations against the arrest of university professors. Despite such delays (he was jailed for a few days each year, "usually around Easter time," as a reminder), he graduated as a "Learned Economist" in 1925; soon after he got permission to leave the country, to recuperate from an operation on his jaw. He never returned...
From the viewpoint of a moderately successful Jewish merchant, the future in Bobruisk, Belorussia looked very dim after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1920 Joseph Hecht and his wife decided to send their husky young sons, Shimon and Yehyel, to Palestine. It was a lucky break for the Hecht brothers, because as time went by, the chances of getting out of the Soviet Union diminished to nil. Mr. & Mrs. Hecht were forced to stay in Bobruisk. Shimon and Yehyel became foundation members of Degania B, a communal settlement in the Jordan Valley...
...became, for a few momentous weeks in 1917, Minister of Agriculture under Kerensky. He was elected president of the Assembly, which Lenin's soldiers dispersed on Jan. 18, 1918 after one all-night meeting. Chernov was driven into hiding, exile and a lifelong struggle against the Bolshevik dictatorship...
Died. Madame Alexandra ("Red Rose of the Revolution") Kollontay, 80, Bolshevik amazon and world's first accredited female envoy; in the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union's first Minister of Welfare, she later served as minister to Norway (1924-26) and Mexico (1926-27) and ambassador to Sweden...
...with Socialist Lord Stansgate and a young Bevanite named Patrick Uber. On the affirmative: Guest Speaker Paul Reynaud of France (see FOREIGN NEWS), and Shuman's presidential opponents Norman St. John-Stevas, former president of the Cambridge Union, and Oleg Kerensky, grandson of Russia's last pre-Bolshevik Prime Minister...