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That career had started more than 40 years before in a Czarist cell, where he had been jailed for revolutionary activities. Son of a Lithuanian merchant, grandson of a rabbi, he migrated from Russia to England and thence...
...More precisely, soft seats. The Soviets have substituted this two-class system of rail travel for the old Czarist three-class system of blue (luxurious), yellow (well off) and green (poor) cars. Abolition of classes in the classless society has meant that social differences are replaced by differences in material quality of the seats. The difference in cost remains...
Russians got him out in exchange for some old flags the Czarist armies had captured from Louis Kossuth...
...copies issued); after long illness; in Russia. Peasant-born "Papa" Kalinin, most genuinely loved of Russia's high command, led the great 1905 Putilov Works strike, served as a genial, goat-bearded front man for both Lenin and Stalin. Many Old Bolsheviks died at the hands of the Czarist and Communist secret police; some died in office. Kalinin was one of the first top men to beat the game: near blind and ailing, he retired last March, his party card unsullied and unperforated...
Also left behind by the Red Army were 1,300 "White" Russians, who were recently welcomed back to Mother Russia's ample bosom (TIME, Feb. 18). These onetime Czarist zealots, including many an old Manchurian hand, now hold 145 important Mukden properties (apartments, shops, offices, factories), which the Soviet Government had turned over to them from the defeated Japanese...