Word: czardom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vacuum of Power. Thus, virtually without bloodshed, nearly 400 years of czardom was swept away in a stroke. But creating from scratch a new government able to rule the vast reaches of Russia proved far more difficult. The Duma committee had included every shade of political color, from socialists to disaffected aristocracy. To head the first provisional government that followed. Prince Lvov, a liberal nobleman, was chosen. The Bolsheviks soon withdrew their tacit support from this "bourgeois" government, and Lenin hurried back to Petrograd to organize his attack. By July 2 he had mounted a sufficiently impressive uprising of sailors...
...Michael Stewart passes the responsibility for administering the Prime Minister's severe economic measures, which call for a complete standstill in prices, wages and dividends for six months, followed by another six-month period of "great restraint." An unflappable administrator, Stewart is expected to handle the economic czardom with more zeal than Brown could have mustered for measures that go against his grain. He will also get along better with Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, who frequently clashed with Brown on economic policy...
...Berlin nut house, in 1925. In two words, her vocabulary is "Anastasia Romanov." Who should hear about her but Bounine the taxi driver? Well, part-time taxi driver. General Bounine (Michael Kermoyan) is one of those loyal servants of the Czar of All the Russias, without whom the czardom could scarcely have fallen. Bounine does not believe that the girl escaped the Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, but he plays Professor Higgins to her Eliza Doolittle and coaches her to bluff big. After all, ?400,000 is waiting in the Bank of England for the rightful Romanov heir. Some blind...
...career of Author Ilya Ehrenburg, 74, spans the history of modern Russia from Czardom through Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin's years of terror, and the gentler years of the old killer's successors. Ehrenburg managed to survive it all by saying just enough of the right things and keeping a discreet tongue about the wrongs around him. Last week, in the final chapters of his rambling memoirs, People, Years, Life, Ehrenburg reminisced on the darker side of the Stalin...
After his steamrollered re-election as president of the powerful Teamsters Union in Miami last month (TIME, July 14), James Riddle Hoffa seemed about as securely in control of his czardom as any tyrant could be. But last week in Cincinnati, 4,000 members of four Teamster locals voted all but unanimously to disaffiliate from Jimmy Hoffa's empire and sign on with unions belonging to the A.F.L.-C.I.O...