Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Written by Dramatist. Mikhail Shatrov, Thus We Will Win uses Lenin's surreptitious visit to his Kremlin office several months before his death in January 1924 as the starting point for a three-hour flashback through the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Soviet audiences sit rapt as Actor Alexander Kalyagin, a startling Lenin lookalike, voices concern that Joseph Stalin, who succeeded him and later presided over the deaths of millions of suspected opponents, has "concentrated enormous power in his hands." The stage Lenin calls for more openness and democracy in the party. "There are three things I cherish...
...spoke so threateningly of China or the old man who, with his slightly slurred and halting speech, recited his devotion to peace? Probably both were genuine. Was the peace of which he spoke only the stillness of Soviet hegemony, or an acceptance of coexistence? Again, almost surely both. The Bolshevik believed in the prevalence of material and military factors; the aged leader was exhausted by the exactions of a pitiless system. Doubtless, no more than any other Soviet leader would Brezhnev resist a chance to alter the power balance; nothing can relieve us of the imperative of preparedness. But within...
During his more than 60 years in the service of the Communist Party, Suslov remained an aloof, backstage figure. Born into a poor peasant family in 1902, he became a fervent Bolshevik at 16. He rose with extraordinary rapidity in the Communist Party hierarchy, soon becoming a protégé of Stalin's. The dictator gave Suslov major roles in a series of bloody purges costing 20 million lives that began in 1931 and ended only with Stalin's death in 1953. A member of the ruling elite since 1947, Suslov kept his top-level posts under...
...Soviet authorities, who denounced Pasternak for his "reactionary" description of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Doctor Zhivago and coerced him into refusing the Nobel Prize, are proposing to dismantle the memorial. The house is owned by Litfund, the financial arm of the Soviet Writers' Union, which rewards approved authors with dachas, cars and access to special shops patronized by the country's elite. After spending 15,000 rubles ($22,000) to renovate the house, Litfund informed Pasternak that he would have to remove his father's belongings so that the house could be assigned to a "producing...
...country regained its liberty after 123 years of partition among Prussia, Russia and Austria. Until World War II the date was traditionally celebrated as Independence Day. After the war, however, the Communists ignored the anniversary, observing instead Nov. 7, the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. In recent years the government has interfered with attempts to commemorate...