Word: bolsheviks
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...which "I tried to place all my thoughts and acts in God's service." At 16 he went to Dartmouth, where he gained some campus notoriety as a radical, largely because of his vehement defense of the underdog. He sometimes sardonically told his classmates that he was "a bolshevik because I want to blow you up." Actually, he was only dreaming of a better society...
...while, people said that the college was somehow connected with Oregon-born John Reed, who so admired the Bolshevik revolution that he was buried in the Kremlin...
Kingsley's N. S. Rubashov is, like Koestler's, a fallen intellectual commissar whose own harsh weapons have been turned against him. He will soon be shot, but, because of his importance, he must be made to confess his "crimes." He remains the old-line Bolshevik who does confess, who does die a Communist, though the Communism he dies...
...Record. During his 15 years as a newspaperman, he specialized in economics, labor and world communism. He came to TIME two years ago from the New York Herald Tribune. Vishniak was born and educated in Moscow, where he became a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. After the Bolshevik revolution he fled to France and, from 1920 to 1940, taught international law and edited a Russian-language quarterly in Paris. Miss Kovarsky, who was born in Russia and educated in France, was assistant economics editor for a French news agency. She came to the U.S. after the Nazi invasion...
Muscovites may have been slightly surprised last week to see Marshal Semen Budenny canter across the cobbles of Red Square on a chestnut stallion. He took the place of honor on the 33rd anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik revolution...