Word: bolsheviks
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...letter to the Manchester Guardian Weekly, Clark wrote: "What happened in the 1930s was that a substantial element among the university population and among authors and literary critics adopted Marxism. And what we are witnessing now is the complete discrediting of Marxism in all its forms-Bolshevik or Menshevik, extreme or moderate, academic or practical. And with this obstacle removed, the group who used to be called 'the intellectuals' quite naturally resume their proper position in the [British] national life as men who can influence, but not dominate, the development of the public taste and the course...
...first hint was a press announcement that Gregory Ivanovich Petrovsky was to get a special award. Ukrainians recognized the name of an almost forgotten Ukrainian Bolshevik who disappeared in the 1938 purge after being charged with "bourgeois nationalism." A few weeks later, Soviet Playwright Alexander Korneichuk, wartime foreign minister of the Ukraine dismissed in 1944 on the same charge, was reinstated as Vice Premier. Last week the switch went the full 180 degrees: the Ukraine's Communist Party boss, Leonid Melnikov, a Moscow bureaucrat, was fired for "profound mistakes in the selection of personnel and the carrying...
...Sverdlov is named for Old Bolshevik Leader Yakov Sverdlov, a crony of Lenin, and the man who in 1918 ordered the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family...
...long been the Soviet Union's most nagging domestic headache. Ukrainians and Georgians, Armenians and Kazakhs, Tartars, Yakuts and Kirghiz-all have their separate histories, their languages, culture and pride; all have been conquered by the more numerous Great Russians whose rulers made Moscow their capital. The Bolshevik Revolution theoretically gave regional autonomy to the subject nationalities, but, in practice, Communist policy has intensified Great Russian chauvinism and liquidated local liberties in the name of Sovietization...
...discarding process will not be easy, for Old Bolshevik Molotov, as George Kennan puts it, is "a smart old fox. He has extraordinary qualities of survival, or he wouldn't have lived through the Stalin regime." In Communist eyes, Molotov's preservatives are great ability and slavish loyalty. At a time when internal Soviet necessity demands a double-headed policy of making war through peace, Vyacheslav Molotov is an extremely useful...