Word: commissar
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...when the Russian Revolution broke out, they were living in an $18-a-month apartment in Manhattan. Within a few months, the itinerant revolutionary was Red Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, then organizer of the Red army and Lenin's No. 1 man, incorruptible, sarcastic, ruthless. Ten years later, having lost in the struggle for power with Joseph Stalin, Trotsky and his wife were chased out of Russia. They finally found refuge in Mexico where, in 1940, a Stalinist agent drove a pickax into the brain of Leon Trotsky...
...good-naturedly feuded with son Heywood, who thumb-nailed her as a "confirmed reactionary and a bridge player." Predicted Broun: "When the revolution comes, it's going to be a tough problem what to do with her. We will either have to shoot her or make her a commissar. In the meantime, we still dine together...
Last week, with Pravda's expose, Bekbayev's career was at an end and the honor of dear old Alma Ata vindicated. So far, no committee of the Supreme Soviet has grilled Bekbayev on television, but an up & coming commissar named Rudolf Tobeyevich Kefauversky is reportedly studying the U.S. record and getting ready to prove that anything the Americans can do, the Russians can do better...
...Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hydie's slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME...
...Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hydie's slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME...