Word: georgis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yezhov started to deny saying any such thing. Stalin then called Georgi Malenkov, who was at that time in charge of cadres for the Moscow party organization, as his witness, saying now that he was the one who had told him that I was really a Pole. Malenkov too denied he had said anything of the kind. The hunt for Poles had reached the point that Stalin was ready to turn Russians into Poles...
...once revered as a staunch fighter of fascism and the founder of communist Bulgaria, but past glories could not save Georgi Dimitrov from the ash heap of history. Last week Dimitrov's embalmed body was quietly removed from the mausoleum in Sofia's main square, where it had been on public display since his death in 1949, and cremated in a ceremony attended only by a few relatives...
...taking part in a student protest. While idling at home, he discovered the works of Karl Marx, which prophesied the inevitable collapse of capitalism and its empires. He did finally get a law degree, but his fascination with Marxism led him to Switzerland, to an encounter with the exiled Georgi Plekhanov, the eminence grise of Russian Marxism; then to meetings with other radicals in Paris and Berlin; then, on his return home, to arrest, trial, jail and exile in Siberia. So Lenin was far away when the Social Democratic Party was born in Minsk and then nearly destroyed. But when...
...parliamentary debates. The plenum discussed plans to invest the position with enhanced powers, creating a presidency more along the lines of the American or French model. The Soviet President's new portfolio is likely to include national security, foreign policy, the KGB and police and oversight of economic reforms. Georgi Arbatov, the country's best-known Americanologist, believes the new President should have veto powers, noting that "we should carefully study the American experience on this." For the present, the President would continue to be elected by the Congress of People's Deputies -- although the notion of direct popular election...
...holdover Communist regime of Premier Georgi Atanasov resigned, and party chief Petar Mladenov, who had unsuccessfully called upon the opposition to join a "government of national consensus," was replaced by reformer Alexander Lilov. Todor Zhivkov, 78, in jail facing charges of misappropriation of state property and abuse of power, was hospitalized with "certain old-age ailments...