Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fruits of a new continent to the old Mediterranean. No less an infamous graduate of Harvard is John Silas Reed '10. He has been officially read out of membership in his class at Harvard, but under the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow, beside the gray stone tombs of Lenin and the leaders of the 1917 Revolution, there is a stone a little higher than any but Lenin's, which records the part played by this man in a great struggle...
...They are, -- "The Golem;" "Jacob's Dream;" "The Dybbuk;" and "The Eternal Jew." As in the case of the Moscow Art Theatre, knowledge of the language of the players is by no means necessary; the astounding effects make their impression regardless. Such men as Maxim Gorky, Stanislavsky, Ghaliapin and Lenin have been won to the cause of the Habima at their first performance, and it is due to the ardent championing of these men that the Habima has survived the troubled days of the Revolution, and is now able to offer to Boston the astounding perfection of dramatic art which...
Paramount in interest on the Chinese scene, last week, loomed the little Soviet steamer Pamiat Lenina (Memory of Lenin), bound from Vladivostok (Siberia) with a cargo of tea for Shanghai and Hankow. At Shanghai, a Russian woman and three Russian couriers boarded the steamer. The captain gave the woman his own cabin, saluted her as Citizeness Borodin, wife of the great Michael Markovitch Borodin, famed Soviet Russian adviser and propagandist attached to the Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, Dec. 13) which has conquered half China...
...ones, however, who openly advocated the making of a separate peace with Germany. They succeeded in stirring the people up to the point of seizing the power in November 1917, and in arresting all members of the Kerensky government except Kerensky himself. He was forced to leave Russia, and Lenin took over the reins of government. Soon after the new regime concluded the Peace of Brest-Litavsk...
Another famine year increased the distress in Russia, but subsequently the Bolsheviki have gradually consolidated their position under Lenin and his successors...