Word: bolsheviks
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Beatty, who was in Cambridge to accept the Hasty Pudding Club's Man-of-the-Year award, said he will star in a movie about John Reed '10, author of the first-person account of the Bolshevik revolution, "Ten Days That Shook the World...
...place of ineffective remedies. There were those who thought the bug was the Kaiser's secret weapon, despite the losses his own troops suffered. In Poland, the source of infection was said to be Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. Those whose prejudices were more political called it the Bolshevik disease...
...Revolution, and at various tunes it was occupied by Japanese, British, Italian and French forces, as well as some 9,000 American soldiers sent by Woodrow Wilson in August 1918. The interventionists vied for influence over the Trans-Siberian railhead off and on until 1922, when the new Bolshevik regime in Moscow finally managed to extend control over the Far East...
...theorizes that since Kryukov, a White officer in the civil war, had written sympathetically of the anti-Soviet side, Sholokhov had to insert passages favorable to the Red cause and introduce Bolshevik heroes into the novel...
Died. Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, 80, Russian-born aeronautical pioneer; in Manhattan. A czarist pilot who downed 13 German planes in World War I after losing a leg in combat, Seversky settled in the U.S. after the Bolshevik Revolution. He founded the Seversky Aircraft Corp. (later Republic Aviation); helped develop the automatic bombsight, the automatic pilot and in-flight fueling; and built and test-flew a number of advanced fighters and amphibious planes. On the eve of World War II the autocratic Russian clashed with Isolationist Charles Lindbergh by arguing that the Axis could be defeated from the air, then...