Word: bukharins
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...stage, which was bedecked with the red trappings of Communism admixed with a strange assortment of banners, sat a select committee of Soviet Grand Dames, and among them, the Priest Bukharin. There was Klara Zetkin, whose kindly face is but a mask that hides the "fierce revolutionary spirit that burns deep down in her soul"; Mme. Kollontai, attractive wife of a handsome sailor, a fervent but impractical feminist, but with an intelligence that has won her the place of Soviet Ambassador; Lenin's sister "taller than he," with angular features and the "prim air of a typical 'schoolmarm' "; Mme. Muralov...
Suddenly there was a hush, someone was speaking from the stage; yet another speaker fired the air with words of Communism. Then, up spoke Bukharin, aflame with the fire of a new Russia, and announced that a humble working family by the name of Aneyniev, had received permission from the Woman's Communist Department to hold a first public civil christening of their little daughter before the Congress...
...child was then passed to Bukharin, the so-called Archbishop of Communism. He took her tenderly but awkwardly. The mother made an instinctive step forward but her husband put out his arm to restrain her. This broke the tension and caused many a ripple of girlish giggles from the audience...
...largest is the Izvestiya (News) which, together with the Moscow Pravda (The Truth), is the official Soviet organ. But no part of the press can be said to be independent of the Government. The last press conference was held in the Kremlin, and no ordinary person enters the Kremlin. Bukharin addressed the conference, saying: " Thanks to our press, which has always furthered the recruiting power of our slogans and made the exalted nature of our ideals clear to the masses, we have been able to devlop our power and to strengthen our Soviet system...
According to the Russian correspondent of The Morning Post, London daily, Nikolai Bukharin, Editor of the Pravda, Moscow communist daily, informed the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party and the Praesidum of the Third Internationale that certain ".comrades" had spent $13,750,000 in propaganda, for which there were no accounts or documents available...