Word: dybenko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petrograd. Kerensky had her arrested, later released her. Now she was ready for Bolshevism and the November Revolution. She was made the first People's Commissar for Social Welfare. Then the "Red Rose of the Recolution" fell in love with a huge, illiterate, black-bearded sailor named Dybenko, who had led the revolt of the Baltic Fleet. In the midst of revolutionary history, the two made a counterrevolution of their own, went off to the lush and lazy Crimea for a prolonged weekend. Alexandra Mihailovna was almost...
...Dybenko was purged in 1938 but not the redoubtable Kollontay. She survived "deviations" which would have doomed another Russian. Twice in the Revolution's early years she quit the party. Once she started a "workers' opposition"; Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin joined forces to destroy it but did not destroy her. An old hand at Bolshevik ways said recently: "When you think of the political company Kollontay kept and the casual way she treated the party line, you realize she must have been a hell of a beautiful something to by-pass liquidation...
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