Word: bolsheviks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today, and who make up nearly a half of the Soviet Union's entire population, Stalinism is little more than a bad childhood memory. They have not been broken by the fear that haunts their fathers nor infected with the blind faith that guided some of their Bolshevik grandfathers. These youngsters have been called a lost generation. They could more fairly be called a seeking generation...
...themes he is faulted for wasting his lyric talent. The same ambivalence, he grins, marks Pushkin, his idol. His other heroes: Boris Pasternak; Hemingway, "my favorite prose writer by far"; Fidel Castro, whom he quotes gleefully as saying "Art should be free"; and Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the explosively original Bolshevik suicide who, like Evtushenko 30 years later, bitterly satirized the smug commissars of his time...
...relatively unknown segment of international relations become an exciting personal drama for the reader. Richard Ullman's Intervention and the War, a history of Anglo-Soviet relations from November 1917 to November 1918, is such a drama--one whose characters include British diplomats, Japanese generals, Czech troops and Bolshevik leaders. Its setting stretches from London to Tokyo, from Archangel to Baku...
...assumption was that there did in fact exist a community of interests between the Allies and the Soviet regime which made it advantageous to the latter to continue fighting the Germans, the hopw was that the Bolshevik leaders could be made to see this...
British diplomatic efforts in Moscow and British military forces in the outer provinces continually worked at cross-purposes--the former attempting to win over the Bolsheviks, the latter supporting anti-Bolshevik groups against the Germans. Suspicion between London and Washington was matched by suspicion between the British War Office and Bruce Lockhart, Lord Balfour's personal representative in Moscow. To top it off, British officers continually involved themselves in local politics, often with disastrous effect...