Word: bolshevik
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...post-modern society. So much that Vandenberg's therapist-interrogator says is plainly reasonable; the Soviets, by his plausible account, really are providing the greatest good for the greatest number. Very briefly, the reader is reminded of the coldly logical dialogues in Darkness at Noon between the old Bolshevik Rubashov and his inquisitor, Gletkin. But little in Vandenberg's sulky response is heroic, or even intelligent. In effect, he simply shrugs. He is not interested in the greatest number. All he wants is for society to leave him alone...
Thus moving from the canvas to billboards, the Constructivists designed posters propagandizing the Bolshevik movement: "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" or "Man in the service of technology." Architectural construction, of workers' clubs or radio stations rang with the Constructivist cry, "Art into life!" (Vladimir Tatlin) an antecedent to the Bauhaus declaration, "That design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of life" (Walter Gropius). And growing from these ideas of incorporation of art in life, came "an architecture whose function is clearly recognizable in the relation of its form" (Gropius). Constructivist experiments...
...self-pity have been preserved in Max Hayward's excellent translation, she captures an almost physical sense of the way people shifted their views and the very foundations of their personalities in order to survive. For Mandelstam, change was impossible. He once tried to keep off the Bolshevik wolves by writing an ode to Stalin. Try as he might, it was an impossible task. Yet the conflict and the tension launched him on a new cycle of real poems...
SHORTLY before he emplaned for a ten-day vacation at Key Biscayne last week, President Nixon issued a terse directive to ranking U.S. officials and diplomats: boycott the festivities in Moscow and at Soviet embassies round the world in honor of the 53rd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution...
...stood for a bourgeois or even a Tsarist restoration, and all the dreaded forms of exploitation which that involved. The threat of the sailors was serious enough, but for the most part it was reformist in nature; the reactionaries would settle on nothing less than the final overthrow of Bolshevik rule...