Word: commissar
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...area the independent kingdom of Kao Kang." In the State Planning job he had "tried to instigate party members in the army to support his conspiracy." Expelled with Kao were seven other lesser party leaders, including rugged, mustachioed Jao Shu-shih, secretary of the Central Committee and onetime political commissar of the New Fourth Army...
Borodin did a stint of work in Moscow, but seeing a prominent commissar throw himself under a passing bus helped Borodin decide that life in the south would be healthier than in the capital, and he went to Baku. Borodin might still be a Baku bureaucrat if, in 1945, the government had not summoned him to go overseas and study penicillin production. Shuttling back and forth between Russia, Britain and the U.S., Borodin forgot his resolution to stay clear of the Moscow meat grinder. His chief, Andrei Tretyakov, seemed to be on the skids.* Scientists in all fields were being...
...solemn festivals. In the huge Central Theater of the Red army in Moscow, the stage was loaded with military notables, their chesty uniforms stiffened with buckram to carry the weight of glittering decorations. Center of attention was Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, new Premier of the U.S.S.R. and longtime top military commissar. The speech of the day was made by the new Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who has a better right than Bulganin to call himself a soldier...
There are, to be sure, some genuine good things. The book, freely adapted from Ninotchka (also used as a Garbo movie), has bright moments of storytelling and spoofing. In its tale of a fanatical Soviet woman commissar-who on a mission to Paris responds to French life and American love-there are brighter lines than in most musicals. There are two or three good Cole Porter tunes, and now and then a good Cole Porter lyric. As Ninotchka, Cinemactress Hildegarde Neff is exotic and pleasing enough to get by without a voice; as Ninotchka's Hollywood agent...
...Novgorod Dragoons and won at least two Czarist decorations for bravery before he had read a line of Karl Marx. Came the Revolution, and Zhukov, a veteran cavalryman, joined 1) the Red Guard, and 2) the Communist Party. Commanding a cavalry division, he won the notice of its political commissar: J. V. Stalin...