Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph Stalin, in his middle 40s, was then Commissar of Nationalities and engaged in a bitter and bloody civil war. His first wife, Katerina Svanidze, had died four years before, and Stalin had taken as his second wife his secretary, Nadezhda Allilueva, the young daughter of an old-line Bolshevik who had once sheltered him from Czarist police. A year or so after their marriage, Nadezhda Allilueva presented her husband with a son, red-haired like his mother...
Pravda describes Russia's huge armed forces as "a certain minimum regular army necessary to defend [Russian] independence," and goes all the way back to 1920 (when Britain, the U.S. and France made a halfhearted attempt to erase the Bolshevik Revolution) for an instance of "imperialist aggression" against Russia. To justify the Communist regime, Pravda also reaches back, almost sentimentally, to "Czarist exploiters and landowners" (all of whom are long dead or out of Russia). Pravda repeats the old line that: 1) MVD labor camps and censorships exist only for "enemies of the people . . . terrorists and assassins"; 2) Russians...
...Little girls, reported the Literary Gazette, were complaining bitterly about the standardization of dolls in Soviet toy stores. 'All the dolls, they said, had exactly the same faces, hairdos and dresses. ¶ A new decree of Moscow's city fathers warned parents of all Bolshevik bobby-soxers, on pain of a $50 fine, to keep their children off the streets after 10 p.m in winter, 11 p.m. in summer. The decree forbade shopkeepers to sell the youngsters liquor or tobacco, and ordered the kids themselves to quit skating in the streets, to stop hitching rides on the outside...
Lenin's attitude, however, gradually changed. Sorokin was offered a position in the Bolshevik Government. He refused, accepting instead his old professorship at the University of St. Petersburg. "Unfortunately," he remarked wryly, "you cannot teach Sociology without political implications...
...should have been shot a hundred times by Bolshevik standards," Sorokin says; "the chances of flight were about a hundred to one against me." The Communists, nevertheless, let him escape, but soon regretted their leniency. Immediately after leaving Russia, Sorokin received a telegram from his wife. It read: "Grandmother was very sorry she didn't give you the last blessings." Grandmother was the Secret Police...