Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of the work has recently become familiar to careful U.S. news readers. She is Wanda Wasilewska, President of Moscow's Union of Polish Patriots. Since she is also the wife of the Soviet Ukraine's playwriting Commissar for Foreign Affairs (they married last year), she is counted upon to solve the Polish problem domestically...
Friends. Voronov was witty, shrewd, well-read. He made friends easily. Among them were Klim Voroshilov, the pudgy ex-miner who became War Commissar, and a young air officer named Alexander Novikov, who seemed destined for great ness. Among them, too, was Joseph Stalin...
...went to the wolves in the early spring of 1917, and Kerensky tiptoed onto the stage, Kollontay and her friends streamed back to Petrograd. Kerensky had her arrested, later released her. Now she was ready for Bolshevism and the November Revolution. She was made the first People's Commissar for Social Welfare. Then the "Red Rose of the Recolution" fell in love with a huge, illiterate, black-bearded sailor named Dybenko, who had led the revolt of the Baltic Fleet. In the midst of revolutionary history, the two made a counterrevolution of their own, went off to the lush...
TIME'S Moscow Correspondent Richard Lauterbach donned tails last week, repaired to the Spiridonovka House for Foreign Commissar and Mme. Viacheslav Molotov's formal reception on the Red Army's 26th Anniversary. Wrote Lauterbach...
...back room the Molotovs sat with Harriman and his daughter Kathy, radiant in a long Alice blue gown; Clark Kerr and Alexander Korneichuk and his wife, Wanda Wasilewska, in a black silk skirt topped by a smart white lame jacket. When asked about Polish relations, Korneichuk, the new Foreign Commissar for the Ukraine, spoke charmingly about plans for rebuilding Kiev...