Word: nikolai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hiding myself here for fear of White Russian vengeance," said the former partner of Nikolai Lenin. "I am an old conspirator, you know. At this very moment I am plotting a Fourth International...
...front lobby wall of the RCA Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center has worn a false face of white plaster since last spring (TIME, May 22). Behind that mask was a great, bright unfinished fresco by Muralist Diego Rivera. When the visage of Nikolai Lenin unexpectedly blossomed in the centre of the painting, the Rockefellers paid Communist Rivera off with $14,000 due him, covered his work with canvas...
...late, great Dictator's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Old Bolsheviks speak of him as "Ilyich." He took the pen name "N. Lenin." Though the N. stood only for "N." millions have assumed that it stood for "Nikolai...
...Bolshevists for conservatism. Sentenced to death, he was awaiting execution when the Communist Government relented, chased him out in 1922. Next year he came to the U. S., taught at the University of Minnesota, was naturalized in 1930, is now head of Harvard's Sociology Department. Chartmaker Nikolai Nikolaevich Golovine, 58, distinguished World War historian, was once a general staff officer of the Imperial Army and professor at the Imperial Military Academy. He makes his headquarters in Paris, has lectured at the French Military Academy, the U. S. War College...
Star study was a natural groove for dimple-chinned Dr. Struve, 36. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father were astronomers. Like War Student Nikolai Golovine, he is Russian-born and a one-time Imperial soldier. After the Revolution he fought with the White Armies, fled to Constantinople in 1921, a year ago succeeded blind Professor Edwin B. Frost as boss of Yerkes...