Word: bolshevik
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Ever since, Zarchin has been fascinated by the idea of getting drinking water from the frozen sea. The Bolshevik Revolution was raging when he heard the lecture, and Zarchin soon got institute support for his experiments to help the Red army. His apparatus, used in the salt marshes of Tashkent, was too expensive, but Zarchin remained certain that the project was practical. He kept it in mind when he was sentenced to five years in the Urals for slyly registering a magnesium-extracting process under the letters "LZLE" first letters of the Hebrew Phrase meaning, "For Zions sake I will...
...Stalin grabbed his despotic power, Nenni dismisses Khrushchev's explanation that Khrushchev and his gang "saw these problems in a different way at different times." Says Nenni: "This answer may be valid in a strictly personal sense. It is not valid for the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. It is not valid for the Politburo . . . They had been placed in posts of responsibility precisely for this purpose, precisely to face difficult situations." Then Nenni comes to the point: "The massacres disclosed by Khrushchev involve responsibilities that were not Stalin's alone, but of the whole directive apparatus...
...Bolshevik, Kaganovich supported Stalin against Trotsky in the fight for power after Lenin died and was rewarded in 1930 with a Politburo seat and the first-secretaryship of the powerful Moscow Party Committee. It was in this job that he took under his political wing a mild-mannered and goateed young functionary named Nikolai Bulganin...
Friend Koba. Even if bitter-memoried Tito had not made plain his dislike of Molotov, it was time for Old Stone Bottom to go. It was 50 years since he joined the Bolshevik party (as a boy of 16), and though he might now see the need for new methods, his name was too closely associated with that of Stalin to be the one to make them. His parents had been respectable people from the Volga region named Scriabin, related to the composer. Young Vyacheslav Mikhailovich ingratiated himself with the Bolsheviks by persuading a wealthy young bourgeois friend to finance...
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the "haranguing hyena" or the "jeering jaguar" who achieved U.N. notoriety (1947-54) for his vitriolic attacks on the U.S., made his reputation as a prosecuting attorney in a theatrical series of purge trials of Bolshevik leaders in Moscow in 1936-38. Among the 54 men cross-examined by Vishinsky was one ex-Premier (Rykov), several Vice Premiers, two ex-chiefs of the Communist International, two ex-chiefs of the political police, nearly all the Soviet ambassadors in Europe and Asia, and all the members of Lenin's old Politburo except Chief Defendant Trotsky (in exile...