Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...competition for big names to face their various batteries of newsmen, TV's three big panel shows have kept invitations and entreaties flowing to the Kremlin. Once, CBS's Face the Nation thought it had won the game, and got ready to televise Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov. But Molotov suddenly reneged, agreed to go on only if questions were submitted in advance. NBC's Meet the Press and ABC's Press Conference ran into the same insistence on canned questions. All three persisted, and for one of them it paid...
...been a functionary in the Moscow party organization (Malenkov's old stamping ground) and that his meteoric rise resembled that of many technocrat commissars. In his new job he ranks as one of the Soviet Union's six First Deputy Premiers (the others: Kaganovich, Mikoyan, Molotov, Pervukhin, Saburov...
Such Moments. Wrote Molotov last week: "I first came to meet Lenin the day he returned to Petrograd from Switzerland (April 16. 1917). It was an exceptional and unforgettable moment for all of us who were present. We were impatient to see and hear Lenin. Instinctively many of us had, more or less correctly, divined the course the party had to follow. This was assisted by the articles and letters Lenin used to send to Pravda from abroad." Having indicated how things stood between himself and Lenin, Molotov goes on: "In the square outside the station I heard Lenin...
...dozen Bolsheviks agreed with their leader's violent policy. Said leading Marxist Scholar Plekhanov: "Raving madness." But because Lenin's "April Theses"-put into effect the following October in the Bolshevik coup d'etat -had stood the bitter test of 40 years, Vyacheslav Molotov was claiming, at long last, his right to share Lenin's fame...
...Dumbbell. Nowhere in Molotov's 3,000-word Pravda article was there mention of an earlier claimant to the same honor, whose name today is actually carved beside that of Lenin on the famous tomb in Red Square: Stalin. Since Stalin had long ago seen to it that few witnesses of those early Petrograd days remained alive in Russia, there was no one around to dispute with Molotov his actual relationship with Lenin. But the archives of Leninism still held their verdict. In a letter commenting on Molotov's work, the exiled Lenin wrote: "We have received...