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Reactions to Nikolai Malko's program with the Boston Symphony last week were remarkably consistent in one respect. Almost everyone thought the program as a whole was badly planned...
...next concert in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Sanders Theatre series will come on Thursday evening. Nikolai Malko, a Russian who has been active in Russia and the Scandinavian countries as a conductor and teacher, will conduct the orchestra in a rather unusual program consisting of Rossini's Overture to "la Gazza Ladra," the First Symphony of Shostakovitch, Max Reger's Variations on a Theme of Mozart, and Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien." The inclusion of both the Rossini and the Tchaikovsky makes the program as a whole rather light. We are not acquainted with the Reger composition, but we hope...
...aligned himself with the Social Democratic Party in 1898. He was astute enough to choose the Bolsheviks rather than the Mensheviks when the Party split in 1903. His first contact with revolutionary bigwigs came when he attended a Party powwow in Vienna. Leon Trotsky noticed him in passing; Nikolai Lenin, who had first met him in 1905 in Finland, set him to work writing an article on the Marxist theory of governing minorities. It was in signing this article that he first used the signature "J. Stalin." "We have here a wonderful Georgian," Lenin wrote of Stalin at that time...
...Defended Petrograd against White General Nikolai Yudenich...
...rate, Lenin's proposal could scarcely be carried out against Stalin's strong organization. During this and the subsequent crucial period the chief members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the Party's ruling body, were Stalin, Trotsky, Grigori Zinoviev, Leo Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky-seven little bottles hanging on the wall. In 1928 Trotsky was exiled from the U.S.S.R., in 1936 Zinoviev and Kamenev were tried for treason, found guilty, shot. Tomsky attended the trial, committed suicide. In 1938 Rykov and Bukharin went before the firing squad...