Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because of the two contacts he had with pro-Russian groups, both at a time when he was attacking Soviet scientific method. The Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR approached him in 1940. This was just after Arthur Koestler had dedicated his anti-communist. "The Yogi and the Commissar" to Polanyi. Polanyi never took part in the group's activities, and claims his sole purpose in joining was to use translations of Russian works which the group could procure for him. He said the society was not pre communist when he joined, but he quit a year later when...
...holocaust who survives to bear witness. Koestler's holocaust was also that of much of European civilization, and Koestler has already borne eloquent witness to it in half a dozen political novels (The Gladiators, Darkness at Noon) and several politico-mystical tracts (The Yogi and the Commissar, Insight and Outlook...
Matyas Rakosi is the kind of old Communist revolutionary who left talk about civil liberties, land reform and the like to the parlor set. At 27 he was a hard-bitten commissar in the regime of Hungarian Red Terrorist Bela Kun; at 28 he was in Moscow as a secretary of the Comintern Executive, perfecting methods for smuggling agents into foreign lands, and capturing control of trade unions...
...Nobody over nobody, in the 1952 Olympic Games, according to Soviet Sport Commissar Nikolai Romanov in an exclusive Pravda interview. Romanov's final reckoning of the unofficial national team scores: Russia, 494 points...
...replace Panyushkin, the Russians last week proposed Georgy N. Zarubin, until last week Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain. Zarubin, who first came to the U.S. in 1939 as assistant commissar general of the Soviet exhibit at the New York World's Fair, was Ambassador to Canada when Soviet spies were caught redhanded stealing atom-bomb secrets. The Canadian Royal Commission later cleared him, produced an exchange of messages between the chief Soviet spy in Canada and his Kremlin boss which indicated that Zarubin was not to be informed of the spy ring in his own embassy...