Word: bolsheviks
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...brute with an unquenchable thirst for the Absolute. Beginning as a divinity student in a Tiflis Orthodox seminary, Stalin lost his belief in God. According to Chayefsky, Stalin was further desolated and left with a desperate sense of meaninglessness when his first wife died agonizingly. As a Bolshevik revolutionary, he found new meaning in life; in Lenin he found...
...knows better than Moscow that trade is a weapon in the cold war. "With every additional shovel of coal, with every additional load of oil obtained through foreign help," Old Bolshevik Lev Kamenev once predicted, "capitalism will be digging its own grave." Faced with the continuing failure of their economy, the Russians may be forced to rely on wheat from the West for years to come, but above all they want to get hold of heavy industrial items including whole factories, which Russian industry on its own cannot duplicate for a long time to come. Western policy is divided...
...called them "gentlemen capital ists," and only occasionally suggested that all capitalists are really robbers and cheats. Communist delegations from all over the world crowded into Moscow for the 46th anniversary celebrations of the Bolshevik Revolution. But Nikita Khrushchev devoted a total of seven hours to a traveling group of 20 top American executives (plus one educator) as if he found more challenge in their company...
...Soviets would like to forget. This youthful fanatic became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and he devised the bleak dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model for Lenin's Bolshevik Party...
...Soviets would like to forget. This youthful fanatic became the model for the dreadful nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and he devised the bleak dehumanized code of conspiracy that became the model for Lenin's Bolshevik Party...