Word: bolshevik
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...version of Marxist thought that eventually won out, because it achieved power, was Marxism-Leninism, after V.I. Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. According to Lenin, Marx's call for a "dictatorship of the proletariat" meant that a tightly organized Communist Party was to be the exclusive dominating force in transforming society. Among the millions attracted by this prescription were two young Chinese, named Mao Tse-tung and Deng Xiaoping, who saw in it a way to change their country from a weak, backward state pushed around by foreign powers to a mighty modern nation. Deng has remained...
...would appear there was more to a writer than his art. Field dutifully charted the course of Nabokov's life: his birth into a distinguished St. Petersburg family; his idyllic, multilingual youth; the Bolshevik Revolution, which stripped the clan of rank and property and launched it into exile. There were Nabokov's university years at Cambridge; his ascension as "Sirin," the pseudonymous literary star of the Russian émigré communities of Berlin and Paris; the coming of World War II; and the flight to America with Wife Vera and Son Dmitri. Colorful details from this period include Nabokov's career...
...spirit looming over the first business session the Soviet leader has ever held with top American officials was that of Lenin, whose brooding fervor seemed to pervade the exchange. Huge portraits of him decorated Red Square in anticipation of last week's anniversary parade of the Bolshevik Revolution; a portrait of Lenin even peered over Shultz's shoulder in the austere Kremlin conference room where the talks were held. Gorbachev opened with a comment that "most often misunderstandings come from a lack of knowledge." Shultz replied: "That's right, although sometimes I know cases where I wish I didn...
...part from his meeting with the Shultz team, Gorbachev has been keeping a low presummit profile. He made only obligatory public appearances at last week's celebrations of the 68th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, reviewing the traditional parade of Soviet military might from atop the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square on Thursday and delivering a brief address at a Kremlin reception expressing hope for a "fruitful" summit. But the Revolution Day symbolism was every bit as unyielding as any of Gorbachev's remarks to his American visitors. NO TO STAR WARS proclaimed many of the posters tacked up around...
...depicting immigration to the U.S. ascribe anti-Jewish pogroms to the U.S.S.R. in the 1880s. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not established until after 1917. Although czarist Russian officials encouraged anti-Semitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the last pogroms were conducted by anti-Bolshevik groups in the Ukraine and White Russia prior to full consolidation of Communist control. William Bollinger Los Angeles...