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From a five-line announcement on the back page of Moscow's Izvestia, Russians learned last week that Marshal Klementi ("Klim") Voroshilov, 63, had been "relieved of his duties as a member of the State Committee of Defense." Into his job stepped Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 49. Bulganin had risen slowly in the Soviet hierarchy. He had been a textile worker, organizer of city Soviets, mayor of Moscow, a member of the Supreme Soviet, vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. Neither a soldier nor a diplomat by training, he was both a general and Soviet representative...
...Nikolai Lenin decreed the functions of the Communist press long before Russia's revolution. The press was to be "propagandist, agitator and organizer...
...full nationalistic stride, the Soviet Union last week got around to honoring the man who did more than any other to make Russian music Russian-genial, bush-bearded Nikolai Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of his birth. The composer of Scheherazade and 15 operas (Coq d'Or, the Snow Maiden, etc.) was the most scholarly member of the famed "Five" (the others: Mussorgsky, Balakireff, Borodin, Cui) who in the '60s weaned Russian music from the influence of German Romanticism and Italian opera. He was also the author of important treatises on harmony and orchestration...
...Decision. Years ago Nikolai Nikolayevich Voronov, Chief Marshal of Red Artillery, a giant of a man with the soul of a great professional soldier, had staked his reputation and his country's fate on the cannon. German generals, whom he would ultimately fight, went in for newer-fangled things. They built their army around the team of tank and plane...
...Nikolai Vatutin's salient was a long, narrow thrust into prewar Poland. To the Germans it looked like a dagger that could strike at Rumania, at Poland, at the last remaining rail line feeding the Wehrmacht in the Ukraine...