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...Commissar. Born the son of a miner in the tiny Ukrainian village of Kalinovka, Khrushchev is what the Communists call a Vydvizhenets, one who is "pushed forward." As commissar for metropolitan Moscow, he no longer affects a worker's peaked cap, but still orates in the rough accent of his early years as a shepherd lad and a child laborer in the Czar's coal mines...
...brothers, it all seems like a new world. From this point on, Soloviev charges through the nightmare of modern Russia at breakneck speed, tracing Mark Surov's career through the civil war in Moscow during the infancy of the revolution, and then a gruesome interval as commissar in Far Eastern Siberia...
...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...