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...have been in college, Schlesinger was apparently not naive, for he avoided the "pink" organizations which snared so many other young liberals. "He always had his feet on the ground," one friend explained. Schlesinger did join the Signet and the Advocate, and Phi Beta Kappa elected him first marshal...
Huge, rugged Marshal Yan Gamarnik, political commissar of the Red army and a full member of the Central Committee, aid not wait to be arrested, but committed suicide...
Transfer of Treason. For mature Russians the message delivered in this oblique way could not but be momentous: according to the Stalin version of history, Marshal Tukhachevsky had headed a plot, inspired by the exiled Trotsky, to take...
...reversal argues much for the conjecture that the Red army is exerting a major influence on the new party line. But, despite Marshal Zhukov's apparently enlarging role in Central Committee affairs, it must also be remembered that (according to Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky), 86.4% of all Red army officers are also party members. Although most of the nine men mentioned by Voprosi Istorii were associated with Trotsky when he was War Commissar, their rehabilitation has been carried out without any mention of Trotsky, or of the charges of Trotskyite collaboration made against them by Stalin...
Seated at a table under a large picture of Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, the ensign heroically ate his way through an eight-course meal (including caviar, crabmeat, mushrooms, capers and sturgeon), rose repeatedly to respond to vodka toasts. Three hours after he had arrived, he retrieved his cap with dignity from under a picture of Stalin and walked firmly down the gangway, carrying himself like a piece of priceless porcelain and bearing farewell gifts of caviar and whale's teeth. "Don't bother our distinguished guest," said genial Host Solianik to pier-side reporters. "He's still enjoying...