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Word: politburo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What democracy needs is faith in herself-faith to combat fanaticism, and a dialectic realism to combat dialectic materialism. Historical and evolutionary trends, in the long view, are on the side of freedom and the brotherhood of man, as against regimentation and the comradery of the Politburo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Socialist Premier Cyrankiewicz was smugly happy himself. At the customary Kremlin banquet, more than half the members of the busy Politburo had turned up-an unusual honor. Moreover, he had had an hour's visit with Stalin, who was in a big-brotherly mood. What had they talked about? Soon after the Polish mission got back, accounts began to go around: they had chattered about the world situation and about left-wing socialism; Stalin believed that there was a place for socialists in a "people's democracy" if they stay far enough left; Stalin did not believe there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Carnations | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Until then," the Tsarina went on, "we enjoyed a pleasant, if rather insubstantial, life. We used to haunt the Casino at Monte Carlo. But after the partition of Poland, Nicky insisted on returning to Russia. He began to attend the meetings of the Politburo. The Politburo! Oh, those interminable speeches. . . . Ah, Katorga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GHOSTS ON THE ROOF | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Signed by the Politburo's Andrei Zhdanov, the decree was Soviet Socialism's drastic move to control inflation by issuing new money and setting up a system of pegged commodity prices to replace rationing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Last Sacrifice | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...week. At a secret meeting "somewhere in Poland," delegates from nine European Communist Parties met to reorganize "the general staff of the world revolution." The importance of the move was highlighted by the presence of Andrei A. Zhdanov and Georgi M. Malenkov, both members of Russia's ruling Politburo and close advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party; Italy's Luigi Longo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: The Comintern Is Back | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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