Word: communing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haskins Prize winner for the year 1934-35. The prize is awarded annually to the student enrolled in History 1 whose course essay "best combines skill in historical treatment with distinction of literary skill." Wernick's essay, written during the second half-year, was entitled "The Paris Commune...
...that it is possessed only by those who are born orators, that to confront a yawning mob on a cold winter morning--or a restive one of a spring day--and fill them with a burning desire to investigate, say, the real reasons for the failure of the Paris Commune, requires long, particularized training...
...Soviet commune every grain of wheat, every horse or chicken, indeed every toothbrush and handkerchief is jointly owned by all members of the commune who own individually nothing outside their skins...
Soviet Union's famed collective farms have ever been true collectives of the type called by Soviet experts the commune...
...ideas about everything. He tells what he thinks of the an den regime, of Napoleon, of the bourgeois king. Louis Philippe, of Napoleon III, of the Franco-Prussian war, of the French foreign policy that led to that war, of M. Thiers and the Third Republic, of the Paris Commune, of the changing status of women through all this time. He also expatiates upon the qualities of French soil, wine and scenery in the different provinces surrounding Pargny, which is on the River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been just another story of a dominating...