Word: nikolay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood and fireworks from Moscow last week. One big piece of news was that Nikolay Tsitsin, the Soviet Union's 46-year-old Luther Burbank, had produced a new annual wheat yielding 144 bushels an acre, quadrupling the best previous yield in the Moscow latitude. He had also got the first live seeds from attempts to cross wheat and rye with a desert plant (Elymus giganteus), which may make it possible to grow those grains almost anywhere, thus opening to cultivation 150,000,000 acres of hitherto untillable Soviet land. The biggest news, however, was this: Nikolay Tsitsin appeared...
Hook's most recent example of the event-making man is the Marxist hero, Nikolay Lenin. Hook disagrees with historians who read the Bolshevik Revolution into history as inevitable. What insured the successful culmination of the revolution was the fact that the individual hero, Lenin, was present. The evidence: Lenin returned to Russia on April 3, presented his thesis on April 4, called for the overthrow of the Provisional Government by armed insurrection. He demanded immediate cessation of the war against Germany. He cried "turn the imperialist war into a civil war." A bombshell, Lenin's opinions outraged...