Word: bolsheviks
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...Bolshevik anniversary, the Soviet press and radio played up three men: ¶ Viacheslav Molotov, 50, made the speech of the day (see above). Outside of Russia it is sometimes forgotten that Molotov's experience is not confined to foreign affairs; a crack administrator, he was Premier for eleven years until Stalin took the post over in 1941. The fact that Molotov's name followed just after Stalin on a recent official list of Soviet leaders was a sign that the Foreign Commissar might return to the Premiership. C| Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, 48, Red Army Chief of Staff...
What Western romanticists called an "unspoiled refuge from civilization," inhabited by indolent drinkers of reindeer's milk, was swiftly taken in hand by the first Bolshevik missionaries in 1921. The Tuvinians had no written language. The Bolsheviks gave them one based on the Russian alphabet, then introduced a proper selection of newspapers, magazines and books. The Tuvinians had lived mostly in bark tepees and felt yurts (tents); they followed their herds from pasture to pasture. The Bolsheviks collectivized the pastures, transformed the nomads into livestock farmers, built motor roads, distributed sewing machines, phonographs and radios, promoted cities like...
Died. Count Leo Tolstoy, 76, son of the world-famed Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) and distant kinsman of the late, wealthy, best-selling novelist Alexey Tolstoy (Peter the Great), expatriate since his banishment in 1918 because of anti-Bolshevik editorials in his newspaper Vestocha, sculptor and writer, frequent U.S. visitor and lecturer; an Hälsingborg, Sweden...
...week's end, heads had cleared sufficiently after the concussive election news, for some sober stocktaking. What did Labor's victory mean to Britain now? Certainly not a Bolshevik revolution. The Laborites were advocates of gradual necessary social repairs, enemies of violent change. All the leaders were responsible men. Most of them had had Cabinet experience...
Even after the Bolshevik Revolution the North American church* did not deny the general principle of its subordination to the patriarchate of Moscow, but from then on the church actually practiced independence-after almost 125 years of filial allegiance to the Russian Synod...