Word: bolsheviks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...policy based on the Lenin-Stalin premise of the possibility of coexistence and peaceful competition of . . . capitalist and socialist," said he. But Russia had a "sacred duty" to keep its army mighty. Next spoke Beria (who called Malenkov the disciple of Stalin) and then, slightly choked by emotion, Old Bolshevik V. M. Molotov. At 11:55 a.m.the orators were done, and the world was noting the order in which they spoke-Malenkov, Beria, Molotov. At 11:58 the body of Stalin was pushed behind the big metal doors of the mausoleum. At the first stroke of noon by the Kremlin...
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, 60, Deputy Premier, holds no specific ministry, will probably continue as the Kremlins roving economic troubleshooter. Last remaining jew in the hierarchy. Born to a poor family in the Ukraine graduated from elementary school became a shoemaker at 14, a Bolshevik at 18 (in 1911). An effective job of handling touchy minorities in Turkestan in 1920 won Stalin's attention and a summons to Moscow. Hard-working practical Kaganovich was sent off in 1925, at the age of 32 to boss the Ukraine, Russia's richest area; there, directed the building of Dneprostroi, first great...
Siberia was the university of the revolution. Here Koba followed the sharp controversies between the right (Menshevik) and left (Bolshevik) wings of the Social Democrats, without committing himself on either side. He also had time to observe his fellow exiles and to study their weaknesses. That maneuvering, waiting, ruthless mind of his was already shaping. Russia's defeat by Japan in 1904-05 brought on the October 1905 Revolution. Koba escaped from Siberia, traveled hundreds of miles by peasant cart, suffered frostbite, and arrived back in Tiflis. Here he married Katerina Svanidze, an illiterate Georgian girl, who bore...
...Stalin and company made a huge tactical blunder in assuming that European Jewry was a pushover for the People's Party. Ever since the Bolshevik Revolution the Politburo has gambled on a campaign of magnanimity towards the Jews, thinking that the lack of a homeland and Nazi decimation would wean them to Soviet allegiance. When Israel gained independence in 1948 and their scheme backfired, the Russians tried to save face by wiping out any strong Jewish influence behind the Iron Curtain...
Actor Gerhard Just, billed for the leading role of the purged Bolshevik Rubashov, grumbled uncomfortably that the play was "unsuitable." The whole cast refused to appear for rehearsals. Company Manager Hans Schueler thought he knew the trouble: his performers were not necessarily Communists-they were simply taking out Rückversicherung, which literally means "back insurance." This is the German word for forehanded protection against occupation by the Russians, if it should come. There are many varieties of Rückversicherung: wealthy Hamburg businessmen who keep yachts fueled and supplied for quick getaways; non-Communist Germans who carry Communist Party...