Word: bolsheviks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...above Moscow, flights of Soviet jets in tight formation spelled out the word Lenin and the arabic numeral 50 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. As Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin looked on from an airport on the city's outskirts, the Soviet military last week put on a rare demonstration of new military aircraft; the last such display was six years ago. To Western observers, the Moscow show also spelled out something else: a new direction in Soviet airpower...
Russia's intellectuals-and many of their colleagues in Eastern Europe-are squirming more restlessly than ever under the weight of Communist orthodoxy, but they see a subtle opportunity to lessen the burden in 1967. Because it is the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, they figure that Communist authorities will take pains to avoid an open clash with the intellectual community, and may even be moved to lift some restrictions on their freedom. Whether or not their hunch is right, the intellectuals have been making some unusually outspoken protests against repressive government policies, particularly in literature...
...Trotsky, he had been the second most powerful man in Soviet Russia and Lenin's obvious successor. At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed leader of the abortive revolution of 1905. In 1917 he returned to Russia from exile and he planned and led the successful Bolshevik insurrection of October. He served as Commissar of Foreign Affairs and than as Commissar of War. He created the Red Army and he defeated the forces of the counter-revolution in Russia's three year Civil...
...extensive collection of rare books and manuscripts, but certainly nothing even remotely similar to the Trotsky papers. During the twenties and thirties Archibald Carey Coolidge, then director of the Harvard libraries, bought for the University a substantial number of books from Russia which were put on sale by the Bolshevik government in order to raise foreign currency. Metcalf, who took over Coolidge's job in 1937, had previously been with the New York Public Library--which had the best useable collection of Russian material in the United States at that time. But Metcalf's experience in New York...
...Moscow it was a necessary exercise, both in terms of the immediate question of the Soviet future in the Middle East and the larger one of its standing vis-à-vis the U.S. in this 50th anniversary year of the Bolshevik Revolution. While the Soviets have been making progress domestically in economic development, they have had little to celebrate in their conduct of foreign affairs for the past 20 years...