Word: politburo
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...wide to a rabble of foreign adventurers trained in the tactics of international Communism. In violations of the laws of the land, ample freedom is given them. From the official radio stations are heard the incessant preaching of social disruption and the broadcasting of the teachings of the Soviet Politburo. Newsstands are flooded with Communist literature...
...mouthpiece of Yugoslav Communism today. Most of the years between World Wars I and II he spent in jail, continuing there to plot, teach and organize (Tito was one of his pupils). Mosa Pijade was on Tito's military staff in the struggle against Hitler, was elected a Politburo member last year, and is considered to be Yugoslav Communism's finest orator...
...main purpose of the project, according to Inkeles, is understanding Soviet institutions and capabilities. "We didn't have the feeling of everyday life before, and we may never get inside the Politburo. What we want to know is what it means for the ordinary citizen to live in Russia...
Fainsod traces the history of the first director of the Cheka and OGPU, Felix Dzerzhinsky, who "gave no evidence of Napoleonic ambitions and died in 1926 without attaining Politburo status...
...workers' revolt, Zaisser was one of half a dozen who lost their jobs. He was the biggest to fall. His Ministry of State Security was merged with the Ministry of the Interior, and he was kicked off the German Communist Party's Central Committee and the German Politburo. The official reason: "Representing a wing hostile to the party, and being an exponent of the defeatist line calculated to undermine the unity of the party...