Word: bolshevik
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Mayakovsky had lived as a revolutionary since childhood. His father was an impoverished nobleman reduced to forest ranger and Vladimir was only twelve when he stole his father's shotguns and delivered them to the local rebels for the revolution 1905; At 15, already a Bolshevik handyman in Moscow, he sat in prison for eleven months reading every book he could get hold of. Back in circulation, he went to art school for awhile. But when a painter friend heard one of his poems, he proclaimed young Vladimir a genius, set him on the road to becoming what...
...parade in Red Square, Mikoyan, for the first time since 1957, was not among the first five Soviet leaders to appear on the reviewing stand. On May 3 the Central Committee magazine Party Life ran an article on "Forty Years of Soviet Azerbaijan." Mikoyan, chief architect of the Bolshevik revolution in Azerbaijan, was not mentioned. Since May 7 Mikoyan has not been seen in Moscow...
...pacify us with artillery fire." Finally, in 1919, the remnants of the Iron Division were shipped to Vladivostok, then in the hands of the White armies. Some foreign military men still cherish a suspicion that Corporal Malinovsky put in some time with the White forces before joining the Bolshevik armies in Siberia as a machine-gun instructor...
...shakeup, a famous Old Bolshevik faded away. Pleading ill health, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 79, resigned as head of state at the Supreme Soviet's closing session. Premier Khrushchev praised and decorated Stalin's old companion-in-arms, then kissed him on both cheeks. But the aged President had been on the wrong side of the 1957 leadership fight, and Khrushchev had not forgotten...
...apostle and chief promoter of peaceful coexistence and the calculated thaw. On the 90th anniversary of Lenin's birth last week, when "the Lenin of today" was off vacationing on the Black Sea coast, the official mouthpiece was Finnish-born Presidium Member Otto Kuusinen, 78, the hardbitten old Bolshevik who was one of Lenin's commissars in the revolution's early days. Kuusinen told an audience of some 20,000 at Moscow's Lenin Central Stadium that "war would be insane" with mankind's new destructive weapons. In Europe, the Communist satellites dutifully echo...