Word: bolshevik
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...joined the Bolshevik Party and got an intense, if defective, party education. On his untrammeled peasant mind Marxist-Leninist theory had the power of revelation. He took the Stalinist line and stuck to it. T hus he became one of the realists of Communism, an undeviating supporter of power-in-being. With his bull-like energy, ready grasp of slogans, he was soon shouldering his way through the party ranks...
...University's reluctance to meet Soviet offers is rooted in fears of incompetence, Bolshevik indoctrination, and generally unorthodox behavior. While officials do not doubt student's ability to see through an obvious intellectual bias, they do feel that Harvard has little responsibility to waste a course on an unknown quantity...
...incompetence, however, need not be the main criterion for the University's decision. Members of the Russian Research Center and professors of Slavic history and literature are certainly well enough versed in Soviet scholarship to pick an acceptable professor. Nor need the University fear wasting a course on Bolshevik bias. If it invited a professor in any scientific field, except perhaps atomic physics, there would be little opportunity or reason for distortion. And a Soviet professor who taught history or literature would probably attempt to conceal any bias in an attempt to prove that Soviet scholarship is respectable. An American...
Civil War Hero V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko (he led the Bolshevik attack on the Winter Palace in the 1917 uprising in Leningrad) was recalled from Barcelona where he was a Soviet military adviser during the Spanish civil war, hauled out of his train by the NKVD. so the story went, and shot beside the tracks...
...long list of artists to suffer the fatal derision of Nazi Germany was one of Germany's greatest sculptors, Ernst Barlach. He died in 1938, shunned by his townspeople, condemned (falsely) as a Jew and Bolshevik. His work, based on the centuries-old tradition of wood carving and German Gothic art, was banned as "degenerate" and typical of "the passive Slav soul...