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...newspaper Cinema warned Russian moviemakers that they "must be faithful to the principles of Bolshevik partisanship in art," while Izvestia turned its attention to dance bands (see Music...
Molotov, one of the most important figures of the mid-20th Century, began his real life in a dark cellar in Kazan where he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolshevik faction). At 19 he was exiled to the Arctic (30 years later he jailed the policeman who had arrested him). By 1912 he was helping Joseph Stalin to edit a small sheet called Pravda, and by 1917 he had risen to a dizzy revolutionary height where Lenin himself noticed Molotov; Lenin called him "the best file clerk in Russia...
...During the last years I had, as Secretary of the Central Committee, to learn the Bolshevik work under the direct guidance of Lenin's best disciple, Comrade Stalin. I am proud of this. Until today I lad to work mainly as a Party worker. I declare to you, comrades, I am going to work in the Government also as a Party worker, as the agent of the Party's will...
News by Air. Tass's ancestral predecessor was the Czarist Russian Telegraph Agency, which worked hand-in-glove with the tight world news cartel promoted by England's Julius Reuter. In early Bolshevik days it was revived as Rosta; Tass, born in 1925, took over Rosta ten years later...
...rebuilding the agency fell in 1921 to a dynamic, Polish-born Old Bolshevik named Jacob Doletsky. Doletsky worked out news-exchange deals with A.P Boss Kent Cooper and U.P. President Karl Bickel. (A.P. and U.P. give Tass their own U.S. news reports in return for Tass coverage of Russia...