Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet statecraft this same ability of the Slav to act "without limit" has resulted in such daring extremes of policy as the attempt to wipe out the whole kulak or "rich peasant" class, complete the Five Year Plan in four years, and suppress all political parties except one, the Communist Party...
...companion of his youth. Together they perform the task of herdsman for the village on the Prince's estate. Thus it befalls that Siedoi does occasionally see lovely Svietlana again. Meantime he makes the acquaintance of various village dogs, Katok, the all-around hunter who belongs to the peasant boy Fedka; Riabtchik, the practically insane watchdog; and Tsygan, a watchdog who absolutely is insane, having lived always and only at the end of a chain in a dark stall...
...armies of Wrangel, Denikin and Yudenich. In 1925 Klimentiy Voroshilov stood 13th on the ranking list of Soviet commanders. Surely he is grateful to Stalin for lifting him over twelve disgruntled heads to the supreme command. His antecedents are impeccable. Born the son of a very poor Ukrainian peasant in 1881, he became a proletarian factory worker in early youth, has been since 1904 a consistent revolutionist, always modest, fearless and devotedly obedient to his party superiors...
...women do all the heavy labor of grinding meal, churning milk, carrying wood, and making pots by hand, while the husbands content themselves with driving the goats to and from the pasture. "Bedouins of the Sahara," and "Medieval Moderns," which is an intriguing study of the charming simplicity of peasant life on the plains of Hungary, are two other splendid films of this period...
According to Widow Bratianu, however, the Peasant Party (bitter political foes of her husband whom they ousted from the Prime Ministry) cleverly "entrapped" her into the 2,000,000 lei expense. When her husband died the Cabinet offered to carry him to the grave as a charge on the national budget. This "charity" Mme Bratianu indignantly refused, replied to the Cabinet: "I will pay for my husband's funeral." Delighted, the peasant politicians ordered the special trains, came to the funeral of their late enemy as to a picnic...