Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other principals include Marjorie Meeks and Eugene Gervasi as incidental dancers, with Karl Cook, Richard Bateson, Frederick Slater, Arthur Lewis, Claire Sarnie, Nancy Ryan, Carol Crowley, and Pamela Smythe filling out the minor singing roles...
...intended as proof of the Soviet Union's new ''lose-and-live" policy. Demoted with Malenkov for their "anti-party"' activity ( TIME. July 15). two more of Stalin's "good men." Yyacheslav Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich. were also said to be slated for minor, unspecified jobs in the government apparatus. But there was a curious dichotomy about the lose-and-live policy: the avidly curious Russian public had been told nothing about these shifts, instead was being treated to a stepped-up hate-and-horror campaign. All . over the Soviet Union, haranguing poli-truks were...
...development of the Soviet Union has been reached by Western scholars and "Sovietologists." It is now known that between 1934 and 1939 Stalin attempted to destroy the authority and power of the Soviet Communist Party by liquidating thousands of its leaders and tens of thousands of its minor functionaries. For 13 years there was no full meeting of the Central Committee and, according to Khrushchev himself, Politburo meetings were a sham. In its last years, the Stalin regime was a pure autocracy. Stalin ruled through a personal secretariat controlled by a "special sector" whose head was Malenkov. The famous names...
...joined the Red army and fought in the Ukraine during the 1918-20 Civil War. He caught the eye of Party Worker Kaganovich, and his career began, first as a minor party secretary at Stalino, then in Kiev. When Kaganovich was assigned to supervise the building of the Moscow subway, he brought in the untutored young tough from the Donets to watchdog the workers. Khrushchev got into the Moscow city party organization in 1931, and when Stalin started liquidating the party leaders Khrushchev quickly put himself on the road to power with a whole string of speeches condemning the fingered...
...English translation used is adequate on the whole. One minor quibble, however: since the aim is to capture as Gallic a spirit as possible, why do they doggedly insist on talking of guineas, pounds, shillings and pence instead of louis d'or, livres, sols, deniers, pistoles and francs...