Word: bolshevistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irresistible Surge. The Franco regime is an old-fashioned dictatorship. It is not dynamic and expansionist like Nazi Germany or Bolshevist Russia. It clings to old institutions and traditions, notably the Church, instead of trying to replace them. It is not strongly ideological. It does not propagandize itself as the Utopian answer to everything, or as an irresistible surge of historical force. Franco himself calls his government "provisional" and speaks of a future return to "normalization...
...tried to impose a form of society of which 99 Russians out of 100 had never heard, which had not been tried anywhere, and for which Russia was called unfit by the very men who had invented this idea of society. If Czarism needed an Okhrana, clearly the Bolshevist state would need a super-Okhrana to fill the larger social vacuum...
Give us the child for eight years, and it will be a Bolshevist forever...
Damned at once by the Hitlerites as Bolshevist, by the Russians as bourgeois, and by critics in the United States as a lunatic advocate of soulless mechanization, Walter Gropius is today nevertheless the humbly proud Papa of a New Architecture which has tenaciously taken root to challenge traditionalist patterns. A self-exile from Nazi Germany, he trooped to this country with the giant company of expatriate European intellectuals ten years ago and now heads the Department of Architecture. In 1947 only Frank Lloyd Wright and possibly France's Le Corbusier rank ahead of him in the general esteem...
High-minded as the masthead of the New York Post* was Kultura i Zhizn's program: "to develop Bolshevist criticism of defects in different branches of the economy and cultural life and to carry on an unyielding struggle with the remnants of the old ideology and with undiscipline, laziness, lack of culture, bureaucracy and carelessness. . . . Producers and writers who suppose that the Soviet people want only entertainment and amusement . . . are hopelessly wrong. Soviet literature and art must produce works full of passion and deep thought, shot through with ideas of Soviet patriotism." Warned the leading article solemnly: "Workers...