Word: borodin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teachings of Marx and Lenin during two years of study at Moscow's Toilers of the East University, wrote a host of articles on colonial problems for Communist-front magazines. In 1925, he was assigned by the Comintern to go to Canton as an adviser to Soviet Agent Mikhail Borodin, then an adviser to the Chinese Nationalists...
Back in St. Petersburg, Kropotkin was soon busy with pamphlets, manifestos, and interminable Russian discussions with a circle of students, workmen and intellectuals. He found the true faith and a false name-Borodin, the first of many. It was not long before he endured his first imprisonment and betrayal. Typically, while his colleagues scuttled out of town to escape the police, Kropotkin was caught because he felt obliged to keep his date with the local geological society to expound his theory on the ice cap. A weaver in his "circle" broke his alias to the police. There was no trial...
...BORODIN: PRINCE IGOR (3 LPs; Angel). A nation's music can reflect a nation's soul, and Igor performs an exposé of Mother Russia's near-seduction by terrifying but awfully stylish barbarians from the East. Igor, as a P.O.W., must resist the charms of the Khan's slave girls singing Borodin's most popular themes, The Polovtsian Dances, not to mention a suave invitation from the Khan to join up and "together feed on the blood of our enemies." Boris Christoff sings two major roles boomingly: the comparatively noble Khan Konchak...
...left-wing intellectual he went to China in 1925 to serve as an aide to Mikhail Borodin, the Russian agent whose job was to subvert Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang for the Communists. That adventure was distilled in an epic novel entitled Man's Fate. When civil war broke out in Spain, Malraux signed on as a Loyalist air officer and wrote another novel based on personal experience, Man's Hope. In World War II he was a hero in the French maquis...
...audience of 3,000 burst into a 15-minute ovation. The company's stand at Expo 67, which continues for the next two weeks with the addition of Rimsky-Kor-sakov's The Legend of the City of Ki-tezh, Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades and Borodin's Prince Igor, was already a bolshoi success...