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...examining the Russian Revolution, Michael Karpovich, professor of History, pointed out the importance of the first World War on the progress of the Soviet outbreak. The failure of the Czarist regime in 1917, he stated, gave the Bolsheviks an unparalleled opportunity for successful revolt...
...haste forgotten to clear the story in the proper place. High up among the feckless "aVisto-crats" who plugged their ears to the revolution's rumble was portly Andrei Plakhin, Soviet Ambassador to Denmark, who came to Marvel's party dressed as an estate manager in Czarist days. Not to be outdone as an escapist, Mine. Plakhin looked fetching as a simple peasant maid...
...villagers of Minsk in Czarist Russia, little Morris Raphael Cohen seemed definitely feebleminded. He was painfully shy, so listless, awkward, and clumsy that neighbors called him Kalyé-keh (a colloquialism for half-wit). Only his mother really knew him. "Never mind," she would say when people taunted him. "Some day they will all be proud to have talked to my Meisheleh...
...bourgeoisie (his father was a minor Czarist official), Zhdanov had spent his life fighting his father's kind. Historians would remember that he had been a leading advocate of the Hitler-Stalin pact, that he had sparked the 1939-40 war against Finland, directed the defense of Leningrad against the German invasion, conducted the ideological purge of writers, artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists, founded the Cominform, and led the attack on Tito. Muscovites, however, were more likely to remember him for his funeral. It was the most pompous display the city had seen since Lenin was laid away...
...confused with former Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Nikolai V. Novikov. † Having restored the use of titles in all the branches of government service, Moscow reverted to another good old czarist custom last week by instituting "special forms of clothing," rank insignia and personal titles for officers of financial and banking institutions. Top rank: General State Counselor of Financial Service...