Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masjumi (Moslem) Party, the country's largest, though both Moslems and Socialists are at least antiCommunist. Last week the Indonesian Minister of Information gave a small party for press attaches and foreign newsmen. The feature of the evening was movies - a short on a glass factory in Leningrad, another on modern apartments Moscow, and a full-length Russian film in color...
...communique said that Abakumov, "having been placed in the post of Minister of State Security by Beria, was a direct participant in the criminal subversive group that carried out Beria's orders." Abakumov, onetime chief of SMERSH, Russia's World War II counterespionage organization, was tried in Leningrad a fortnight ago before the military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. The indictment accused Viktor Abakumov of having: 1) "framed up and falsified charges against individual workers of the party and Soviet government and representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia"; 2) "using methods of investigation prohibited by Soviet...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (Leningrad Philharmonic conducted by Eugene Mravinsky on Concert Hall; New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos on Columbia). The latest symphony by Russia's Dmitry Shostakovich performed by the orchestras that gave the work its world and U.S. premieres respectively. The Americans, for all their dazzling virtuosity, sound less Russian than the Russians, but both recordings make the work sound stronger and more cohesive than it does in concert...
Lost: an Open Mind. In secret, aboard an ice-covered Soviet vessel, Ho Chi Minh put into Leningrad. "So here you are!" a Communist contact greeted him, and for two years the Russians paid him flattery. In Leningrad they lent Ho a fur coat, treated him to roast meats and two-finger-long cigarettes. In Moscow they invited Ho, about 30 years old, to sit with the President of the Third International. In return, Ho helped the Russians organize their "University for Toilers of the East," and accepted training-like China's Chou En-lai-as a "professional revolutionist...
...much from the propaganda of coexistence but from a number of other assumptions: that the Russian leaders are in no mood to start a world war; that the capacity to destroy New York and Detroit is not good enough if it results in the destruction of Moscow and Leningrad; that the Russian junta is not sufficiently in control of its own people, or secure enough from its own rivalries, to trigger World War III; that the new gang is a somewhat sedentary set of revolutionaries (compared, for example, with the cockier, more aggressive new rulers of China). Some...