Word: bolsheviks
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...emphasis . . . was placed on the contemporary scene . . . Since the second world war, it has become the fashion in survey courses to begin at about 1500 A.D. if the institution is conservative, and 1918 if it is not, with a quick flashback to 1917 in order to include the Bolshevik revolution ... If this trend is carried to its logical conclusion we shall indeed not have history in the curriculum, but only social studies which, with luck, will be contemporary civilization, and at worst, predictions of things to come based on statistics of things happening...
...Camille Bornerie, ex-Communist newsman, recalled that in 1937 the Communists received $1,000,000 from Russia for propaganda purposes, concluded: "I don't know why L'Humanité started this trial. When you are a Bolshevik soldier, there is nothing dishonorable about receiving money from the Soviet Union...
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 10: Professor Merle Fainsod will lecture on dictatorship in relation to the government 115. Although this course will touch briefly on the history of dictatorship itself, the emphasis will be on the Bolshevik Revolution. The course meets in Emerson...
...historical framework: the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia broke loose from Russia after 1917's Bolshevik Revolution, became thriving little democracies (total population: 6,000,000). In June 1940, Soviet troops, cops and commissars invaded and occupied the three nations. Driven out by the Germans in mid-1941, the Russians returned in 1944. Since then, the Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians have lived under the Communist heel...
...regard themselves as "second-generation Communists" - too young to have been bomb-throwers in Czarist days, but old enough to have been hardened on Stalin's anvil. Said a German Foreign Office man who met Khrushchev in Moscow: "He is one of the best examples of the young Bolshevik - like Malenkov a fat, brutal, intelligent fonctionnaire, a new type created by Stalin: undogmatic, unintellectual, but effective rulers...