Word: bolsheviks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...democratic dogma that revolutions were a good thing. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," said Jefferson. But the tree of liberty has fared poorly in the blood baths of this century. The grim example of the Bolshevik and other revolutions has caused political theorists to take a second look at revolutions...
...reception in the Palace of Congresses banquet hall, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Nikita Khrushchev presented the picture of a man bouncing back in great style from his own Cuban fiasco. In one of his most dazzling displays of personal diplomacy, he seemed relaxed, relieved and philosophical. "Who won and who lost?" he asked reporters. "Reason won. Mankind won because if there hadn't been reason, then there might not have been this reception, and there might not have been any elections in the U.S." Khrushchev even seemed to concede a U.S. missile lead...
Usually the Bolshevik anniversary is the occasion for an informal Red summit. But as of last week, Khrushchev seemed eager to avoid such mass meetings. He sent no invitations at all to Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam, and called in his East European allies to Moscow one by one for quick briefings on Cuba. Last to arrive and last to leave was Hungary's Janos Kadar...
DMITRY POLYANSKY, 44, the youngest member of the Communist Party Presidium, was born in a Ukrainian peasant hut on the day of the Bolshevik Revolution (Nov. 7, 1917), attended the Central Committee Communist Party school, and became its star graduate when in 1958 he replaced Kozlov as premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, largest and richest of the 15 Soviet republics. Polyansky is loudly extraverted, urbanely intelligent, shrewdly aggressive-a combination of attributes matched only by Khrushchev himself. If Khrushchev should fall ill or die soon, Polyansky's youth would probably be a handicap, but if the succession struggle...
...Yuli Martov, a leader of the defeated Social Democrats, is in hiding. As he is cooking supper on a tiny stove, he is interrupted by Sofia Markovna, a secret emissary from Lenin. Martov and Lenin were once the closest friends when both were Social Democrats, but since Lenin turned Bolshevik and later seized power, Martov is Lenin's bitterest enemy. Whispers the messenger: kindly Lenin, taking pity on his old buddy, has arranged to whisk Martov out of town before he is arrested. A seat is waiting on the Minsk-Warsaw night express. Not even the Council of People...