Word: bolsheviks
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...relatively unknown segment of international relations become an exciting personal drama for the reader. Richard Ullman's Intervention and the War, a history of Anglo-Soviet relations from November 1917 to November 1918, is such a drama--one whose characters include British diplomats, Japanese generals, Czech troops and Bolshevik leaders. Its setting stretches from London to Tokyo, from Archangel to Baku...
...assumption was that there did in fact exist a community of interests between the Allies and the Soviet regime which made it advantageous to the latter to continue fighting the Germans, the hopw was that the Bolshevik leaders could be made to see this...
Emil Hahn, the great anti-Bolshevik, leaps us at this point and calls Janning a traitor. As a director, Kramer thus bypasses no opportunity to remind America that crusading Anti-Communism has been used before as a means of encroaching on political freedom. Many liberal intellectuals have discounted the seriousness of the film because it relies on Hollywood's popular technique and personnel (Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland and Montgomery Clift turn in superb performances). These people should realize that there is a wealth of professional film-making skill in Hollywood, capable of more power and subtlety than any other cinema...
...Capitalist Captain." Of all the U.S. Presidents who have held office since the Bolsheviks took over Russia, Roosevelt came closest to the Soviet idea of what a U.S. President should be. He won Russian gratitude for establishing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union immediately after he took office in 1933 (Democrat Wilson had "intervened" against the new Bolshevik regime; Republicans Harding, Coolidge and Hoover had refused to recognize it). Stalin in the '30s gave F.D.R. ambiguous praise as "one of the strongest figures among all the captains of the contemporary capitalist world." But the Soviet press was generally scornful...
...parties continued to take sides between Moscow and Peking (see following story), the Russians stepped up their attacks on Vyacheslav Molotov, who has become the symbol of the implacable Stalinist-Chinese policy that Nikita Khrushchev now fights as treason to Marxism. Not long ago, Western newsmen reported, the Old Bolshevik and his daughter had been reduced to selling off the family furniture from her Moscow apartment, suggesting that he had been stripped of his post and income.* Last week the Supreme Soviet ordered his name expunged from 35 factories, streets and towns, and Molotov himself was in the hospital with...