Word: bolshevik
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...struggle between hard-liners and radicals has splintered the party into rival factions. They range from the Bolshevik Platform of neo-Stalinist gadfly Nina Andreyeva to the radical Communists for Democracy group led by Russian vice president Alexander Rutskoi. Sergeyev contends that his Communist Initiative movement alone counts at least 3.5 million sympathizers. Other alternatives are emerging on the fringes of the party. With the tacit approval of Gorbachev, former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze set up a Democratic Reform Movement earlier this month to further perestroika. Last week Alexander Yakovlev, a key architect of Gorbachev's changes, quit the government...
...yank his fusty country toward the future. When the Russians went to war against Germany in 1914, the city's Teutonic appellation suddenly became politically incorrect. Emperor Nicholas II's solution was to Russify the name, making it Petrograd. So it remained until 1924, when Lenin died, prompting the Bolshevik government to rechristen the city in his honor. It was there, after all, that worker revolts paved the way for the communist uprising...
...stage. Yeltsin has tapped the desperate yearning of Russians to be taken seriously by their leaders, to be spoken to rather than lectured at. He is thus not simply the most popular contemporary Russian political figure by far, but also the first genuinely popular Russian political figure since the Bolshevik Revolution...
There is nothing farfetched about the idea that there might be a civil war in the U.S.S.R. Senior American intelligence officials believe there is a "very real" possibility of widespread disorder; several analysts compare 1991 with 1917, the year of the Bolshevik Revolution. A complete breakdown, they fear, could happen with stunning rapidity, perhaps in only 10 to 20 days. Says an assessment drafted last week: "Labor strikes in key sectors at the same time political and military power is being fragmented by ((secessionist moves on the part of)) republics, and even ((individual)) cities . . . could create a sudden economic collapse...
Over there, across the park, one saw the works of Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka and others. The viewer could imagine what demons stood behind them: the creeping Jew, the scheming Bolshevik, the Negro with his thick lips and saxophone, the slavering pervert. In here it was all David and the Apollo Belvedere, noble simplicity and calm grandeur as $ interpreted by such heirs of Michelangelo and Polyclitus as Hitler's favorite sculptor Arno Breker and his court painter Adolf Ziegler. What kind of Germany, the two shows asked, do you want...