Word: bolsheviks
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Died. Mischa Auer, 61, character actor who played seedy aristocrats, slightly frayed remittance men, or mad Cossacks in scores of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s (My Man Godfrey, Destry Rides Again), the orphaned son of a czarist naval officer, who at one point during the Bolshevik revolution roamed Russia with a pack of parentless children before a grandfather brought him to the U.S., eventually made his way to Hollywood, where his borsch-and-sour-cream accent and rolling-eyed comedy won him fame; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...1930s, Muggeridge toured Russia to see what wonders the Bolshevik Revolution had wrought. When he became aware of mass starvation and terrorism, he discarded his comfortable left-wing views for life and became a determined foe of Communism. It was this experience that turned him into such a mordant critic of his fellow...
Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was imprisoned in Northern Russia in 1918, waiting to be executed for anti-Bolshevik activities when he learned that Lenin had personally intervened to save his life...
...shot that some observers had predicted, the Russians showed their guests the launch of a radio-and-TV-relay satellite named Molniya (Lightning). About the only clue from the Moscow summit was a negative one: in the list of slogans promulgated last week for the 49th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, a key phrase was missing. For the first time since 1918, the Soviets failed to say, "Workers of the world, unite...
...credo as old as the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. But last week Sovietskaya Kultura, the official publication of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, suddenly came out for a party line. Sadly lacking, says the paper, are nightclubs in the Black Sea resort area. As things are, the only pleasant memories a vacationer takes home are "the temperature of the water and how the magnolias were blooming in the park." What the proletariat needs is "marvelous little places-nightclubs for lovers and quiet evening gathering places for family people...