Word: bolsheviks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private screening in the Kremlin in 1943, the real prosecutor at those strange and gloomy assizes, a clean-shaven man with white hair and a pink face, almost collapsed with laughter-laughter directed not only against the movie but against the popular cliche of that day that a Russian Bolshevik was a man with a black beard and a bomb in his hand. If, twelve years later, the popular conception of a latter-day Bolshevik is nearer reality, it is due in some measure to that same pink-faced, white-haired prosecutor, Andrei Vishinsky. Before he suddenly died...
Wagging Tail. A Russian proverb says that if you run with the pack, it is necessary not only to bark but to wag your tail. Andrei Yanuarevich set out to be a tailwagger extraordinary. Tirelessly he lectured and wrote about the "magnificent and profoundly true words" of contemporary Bolshevik leaders. A functionary in the Moscow Law School (though the record later dignified his jobs with grandiose titles), he was detested by the Old Bolshevik jurists. "I cannot stomach him," said Appellate Judge Galkin. "That man is simply a disgusting careerist." In the university he got to know a plump young...
Continuing Problem. From Capitol Hill came cries of outrage because U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles ("Chip") Bohlen attended a Moscow party celebrating the 37th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution after the B-29 was shot down. Again President Eisenhower took a conciliatory position: Bohlen had received only fragmentary news of the attack minutes before leaving for the party, and the President had no complaint against Bohlen's judgment or decision...
...Everywhere," shouted Russia's Marshal Nikolai Bulganin last week to the crowds gathered in Red Square to celebrate the 67th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, "the warmongers are still continuing and increasing their activity." Such words are as expected a part of revolutionary celebrations as references to Old Glory on the U.S. Fourth of July. But last week the remarks were milder. When the usual parades were over, several representatives of the "warmongering" U.S. were among honored guests at a huge Kremlin banquet. There for the first time, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen broke bread with Premier Georgy Malenkov...
...Communists themselves fell to quarreling openly. Some complained that "the kulaks have become impertinent"; the Communist Central Committee had to announce that it would not tolerate the "recurrent anti-peasant mood." Pudgy, bullet-headed Old Bolshevik Matyas Rakosi, no longer undisputed boss of Hungary, decried the "danger of right-wing tendencies," but the party organ Szabad Nep criticized instead "the narrow-mindedness and sectarianism of certain left-wing individuals...