Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police state, will be published in the U.S. this fall. What has irked the puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent strike" of Hungary's unjailed writers, who refuse to raise a pen in salute to the government. Kadar's literary commissar is a hack essayist aptly named George Boloni, who is vainly trying to woo or to coerce the silent strikers. To preserve the illusion of literary activity, the regime reprints old books. Scoffs Journalist Paul Tabori, a longtime exile in Britain: "If they can find a poet of a hundred years...
Half of the ten Polish writers brought together in this book are living in exile. That is probably inevitable, since none of them seems to be gifted with the kind of talent a cultural commissar would find useful. The only line to which they hew is their personal vision of life. Except for two, these are stories born of a sad understanding of man's fate. Joseph Conrad is by that reason not too far removed from these countrymen of his. There is in some of them the same underlying Slavic brooding, the recognition that...
...decisive meeting, and the dutiful Deputies sensed that they were to be called on to ratify changes in what the comrades are pleased to call the vanguard of the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat. Moscow's talk centered around the premiership. Marshal Bulganin. the goateed. pleasantly plump palace commissar who had held the job for the last three years, had hesitated too long about supporting Khrushchev in last June's party leadership struggle and had received far fewer nominations than other Politburocrats for last month's Supreme Soviet elections. Now Bulganin took a seat in the second...
...corridor. Now he was bundled up in his black overcoat with the curly black fur collar and the cylindrical black fur hat. He gave us a grin and a sort of salute. Then, accompanied by a general, he moved on down the hall, as round and jolly a commissar as ever stoked the fires or marshaled the might of international Communism...
...strange sounds from the Communist jungle make a gruesome and highly revealing composition. The book gives, perhaps for the first time, a complete account of a Communist education from grade school to commissar level...