Word: bolsheviks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...restaurant not far from the Tauride Palace. Roll was called. Rosettes of red silk and entry tickets were handed out. We exchanged news and rumors-it was said that the delegates who had been arrested by the Reds were now to be released from the Peter Paul Fortress. This Bolshevik "gesture" was widely commented on. It seemed a clear sign of yielding on the part of an unyielding regime. The situation appeared to be developing more favorably than anyone would have, thought...
...vast (710 pages), panoramic novel of life in Russia from 1903 to 1929. Feltrinelli's agent brought a manuscript to Italy, and a translation was made. Meanwhile the powerful Union of Soviet Writers got hold of the novel, decided that its "cumulative effect" was to depict the Bolshevik revolution "as if it were the great crime in Russian history." Extensive rewriting was "suggested...
Czech Red leaders speak more of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution than of the man of the moment in the Kremlin. They have not yet fully recognized the Soviet Party Congress or rehabilitated one victim of Stalinism. Party newspapers shy away from Moscow's struggles. They are always ready to jump either...
...noisy confusion compounded of incessant oratory, the rumble of tanks and the clinking of glasses, the Communist world last week celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Prague a 105-ft. statue of Stalin was bathed in floodlights. In Budapest a monument to 24 Soviet soldiers killed in the Hungarian "counterrevolution" was unveiled. In Ulan Bator the elite of Outer Mongolia were treated to an address by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav...
...power had provided all those things and more. But, as always happens when the gentry are having a ball, the kitchen help and field hands were harder pressed than ever. In the mines and factories of Russia's satellites last week, tens of millions of people "celebrated" the Bolshevik Revolution fittingly by working an extra shift without...