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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When news of this reached the Kremlin fury knew no bounds. Nobody knows better than shrewd Josef Stalin that the shrewd Russian peasant is a born ironist, famed for taking cracks at his masters by sly indirection. That one of the Dictator's pet collective farms should have staged an assassination of Red by Red, no matter under what pretext, meant just one thing in Russia. Last week Pravda, newsorgan of the Party, banned any further staged assassinations, denounced Saratov's rustic thespians, demanded their instant punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Prized Assassin | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

Called by Russian socialites "Le Charmeur," Alexander is an ironist. What he offers to the U. S. public Once a Grand Duke (Farrar & Rinehart, $3.50), he undoubtedly means "Once a Grand Duke always a Grand Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Best Books | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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