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Other Harvard candidates: Astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (Cambridge); Historians Edward Samuel Corwin (Princeton) and Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff (Yale); Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (Technische Hoschschule, Zurich); Anthropologist Bonislaw Malinovsky (London); Philosopher Hu Shih (National University of Peiping...
...whip that cracks loudest and most potently in Russia is the Communist Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik...
...think of Bolshevism's executors pungently appeared last week at a Congress of Master Builders in the Kremlin with Dictator Joseph Stalin and most other Soviet bigwigs present. To make the opening speech Russia's cloistered priesthood of planners, the Gosplan, sent their economic abbot, Comrade Valerian Ivanovich Mezhlauk, chairman of the State Planning Commission...
Soviet efforts abroad to create an impression that Dictator Joseph Stalin no longer tries to foment the World Revolution of the World Proletariat were again upset in Moscow last week by the Communist Party's official Propaganda Chief, candid if clumsy Comrade Alexei Ivanovich Stetsky...
Scrubby-bearded, crinkly-eyed old Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President and popular front man for Dictator Stalin, brought delegates of the Moscow Province Soviet cheering and stamping to their feet last week with one of his characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when...