Word: communes
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...they were mostly preoccupied with the delights and hazards of freedom. Several hundred Russian, Polish and Czech farm laborers shut Count & Countess Wolff von Metternich in their Westphalian castle, organized an impromptu commune. Said one of the Russians: "For five years we watched them eat eggs. Now we eat eggs...
Three years before Churchill was born, Bismarck made the German Empire Europe's No. 1 power by defeating France. This same year, and as a result of the same war, Paris gave Europe the first example of a new revolutionary political form-the commune or soviet...
...Organizer of Victory looked toward Europe, he could not but feel: well done. Europe's No. 1 power was all but crushed. But that crushing had brought forth a new power in Europe. In the mighty form of Russia, the commune-the second of those political fates that stood near Winston Churchill's cradle-had emerged as a potential power such as Germany could never have hoped to be. Russia embodied a new form of social, economic and political organization-Socialism. Already most of Europe had felt her influence, as the heavings and threshings in the liberated countries...
...other was Vladimir Lenin. To the old revolutionist who in 1917 used to number the life of the Soviet Government in days ("Now we have lasted two days longer than the Paris Commune," "We have lasted two days longer than the Paris Commune.") the Anglo-Russian meeting would have meant success beyond his dreams. Well might he have said to his great disciple: "Khorosho!- A good...
...stamps with perforated seams, retractable carriage steps. After building the first streetcar lines between Liverpool and Birkenhead, Train circled the globe in 80 days (said Train of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days: "He stole my thunder. I'm Phileas Fogg"). During the Paris Commune, Train wrapped himself in French and American flags, screamed at a firing squad: "Fire, fire, you miserable cowards." He lived to be buried in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, leaving to science the 27th heaviest brain on record...