Word: commisar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vasili Chapayev was a carpenter when the Bolsheviks rose up in 1917. When the White General Kolchak was making his last stand in 1919, Chapayev was the foremost guerilla chieftain in all the Russias. His services were obtained by the Red army and the commisar Furmanov sent to accompany...
...cellars, whence their execution was announced by the Government after 60 hours, were all ace-high Communists only in Russia, scarcely famed abroad. The execution this week of Grigoriy Piatakov, Vice-Commissar for Heavy Industry, after his super-sabotage confession, leaves Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze Commisar for Heavy Industry, vindicated in the Soviet press for Heavy Industry's having fallen behind the Five-Year Plan. Other confessions and executions of the week vindicated virtually all Russia's thousands of recent wrecks and breakdowns...
...clever, biting political satire born of the nimble brain and acid wit of Walter Hasenclaver, "der bose bub" of German dramatists since the passing of the terrible Widekind, staged all over Europe as an example of Hasenclaver "boseheit," adapted as a piece of Soviet propaganda by the People's Commisar of Education at the Second Moscow Art Theatre, and now staged for the first time in this country by the Harvard Dramatic Club on the basis of a fresh literal translation from the German text as the forty-third production of the society...