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Questioned about the Soviet rule in Russia, the European philosopher answered that the Bolshevist regime had come to stay. "Most revolutions are mere retrogressions. There is nothing new under the sun." Explaining this remark he said that for every thing that seems new, startling, and modern today, conditions almost exactly analagous can be discovered by searching back far enough through history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA NOW LIES UNDER CLUTCHES OF FEMININITY | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

...been condemned to death. The letter arrived by registered mail and bore the signatures of Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, Party Secretary Stalin and other Communist bigwigs. It offered grounds for the condemnation in a reference to the Pope's financial contributions toward the support of the anti-Bolshevist movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope at Rome | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Joffe was one of Soviet Russia's foremost diplomats and represented his country in many lands, the most notable, perhaps, being China, where he was able to prepare the way for Bolshevist influence in the civil war still raging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Death of Joffe | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Adolf Joffe was 44 years old when he died. Born in the sunny Crimea, he joined (at the age of 17) the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, the left wing of which became the present Bolshevist movement. An education in Russia being consequently denied to him, he went to Berlin and there studied medicine (1903-6), thence to Zürich to study law (1907), thence to Vienna to study law & medicine. His departure from Berlin was precipitated by the authorities who, on account of his radicalism, considered him an undesirable alien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Death of Joffe | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...many trips to Russia under a pseudonym he was taken prisoner and exiled for life to Siberia. The 1917 revolution freed him. Returning to Petrograd, he became a member of the municipal council under the Kerensky regime, and a few months later became one of the leading Bolshevist victors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Death of Joffe | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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