Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Voters. He might have been struck by the full meaning of the revolution: the substitution of one privileged class for another; for, today, in Communist Russia the workers are the aristocracy, and the former aristocracy and the bourgeoisie rank even lower than did the workers under the Tsars-they do not count at all. Only workers & peasants over the age of 18 can vote...
MIKHAIL IVANOVITCH KALININ, 52, First Chairman of the Union Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party, a position roughly corresponding to the Presidency of the Soviet Union. Born a peasant, Kalinin (Karlee'neen) migrated to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) at the age of 14 to work in a cartridge factory. There he became interested in revolutionary intrigue; imprisonment, banishment repeated themselves, as in the case of most of the revolutionists. Liberated in 1917, he took an active part in the Bolshevist revolution and in 1921 was elected to his present post. He is a small, wiry, typical...
After a three months' vacation, the French Parliament last week reassembled. Its first act was to free four Communist Deputies - MM. Cachin, Duclos, Marty, Doriot-who were imprisoned during the summer for sedition. It was made clear to the four that as soon as the Chamber of Deputies ended its session they must go back to prison and "spend their vacations there." Deputy Franklin-Bouillon and a small party of his friends resigned from the Socialist party and formed the Radical Unionist party, the eleventh in French politics. The session continued...
...bitter session. President (Premier) William Thomas Cosgrave, sitting as an ordinary Deputy for Cork, was re-elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. The actual votes cast were 76 for and 70 against, Capt. William Archer Redmond abstaining and James Larkin, Dublin Communist, absent as an undischarged bankrupt...
...flurry was caused by the arrival of Leon Trotzky and Gregory Zinoviev, leaders of the Communist Opposition, recently deposed from their official positions in the Third (Communist) International (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926, & Oct. 10). Still members of the Central Executive Committee, their presence gave rise to much speculation. Would they address the Committee? Would their attitude be compromise or further defiance? Would the Committee oust them? These were questions that Leningraders and Communists asked themselves...