Word: pavel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOHN PAUL JONES, by Samuel Eliot Morison. Harvard's Professor Emeritus Morison is not at his best when his hero (who at one time served Catherine the Great as Rear Admiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones) is ashore, but in describing the fighting at sea, Morison has no superior...
...Pavel Satyukov, editor of Pravda (circ. 5,500,000), is an unknown who puts out perhaps the dullest newspaper in the world. Izvestia (circ. 1,800,000) Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, 35, is very well known indeed, partly because he is Khrushchev's son-in-law. But though Adzhubei might have been helped by the family connection, his ability is not disputed; as editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda (party youth organ) from 1957 to 1959, he cut down on party propaganda, racked up a notable circulation increase. Author Mikhail Sholokhov, 54, is a devout Bolshevik who fought the White Guards...
...slate grey, glass-fronted, six-story building on Moscow's Pushkin Square, the subeditors and department heads of Izvestia (Information) trooped into the office of Editor in Chief Konstantin A. Gubin for the planyorka, or editorial conference. At the same time, 14 blocks north, Pavel A. Satyukov, editor in chief of Pravda (Truth), Moscow's other big morning paper, summoned the top members of his staff. There was no debate over policy. There was some debate about space allotments, e.g., between the Department of Propaganda and the Department of Soviet Constructions. But the planyorka was no more than...
COMRADE VENKA (246 pp.)-Pavel Nil in-Simon & Schusfer...
...criticized the "growing contradictions" in Communism, charged that Communism's "unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings," and likened the Reds' reliance on violence to that of the fascists. Lately, Nehru has found himself under attack from no less a Red than Pavel Yudin, Soviet Ambassador to Red China and one of the Soviet Communist Party's leading theoreticians. In the December issue of the World Marxist Review (published in Prague), Yudin accuses Nehru of distorting Communism's meaning and discrediting "the real and living socialism" that the Reds are building...