Word: bolshevik
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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...
...television lights, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov stepped to the podium in the Kremlin's modernistic Palace of Congresses late last week to report on the state of the country. In his address, delivered on the eve of a national holiday marking the 64th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ustinov lectured Washington on its belligerent rhetoric. Charged Ustinov: "Its high-ranking representatives declare with cynical disregard for the destinies of peoples that 'there are things more important than peace' and that a so-called limited nuclear war is not only possible but even acceptable...
Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, would seem to some an unlikely candidate for sainthood. He consulted faith healers, intervened highhandedly in church affairs and ruled with a sublime ineffectiveness that helped pave the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. But last week in New York City, Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their son and four daughters, all murdered in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, became saints. In an unprecedented ceremony of glorification, they, along with some 30,000 other Russian Orthodox Christians killed by the Soviets, were named "martyrs" and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia...