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...distinguished group to Lodz. At the convention, a total of seven liberals-including Zbigniew Herbert, Poland's leading lyric poet-were elected to the 24-man executive committee that had previously been composed entirely of conservatives. Jerzy Putrament, who for 20 years has been the party's politruk, or watchdog, within the union, was narrowly re-elected to the committee by a single vote-and only because some of his prominent opponents happened to be out of the hall at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Realistic Compromise | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...came to Orenburg while Malenkov was a pupil at the local high school. He cut his classes, joined the Bolshevik army, fought in bitter campaigns against the local anti-Bolshevik forces of Ataman (Chief) Alexander Dutov. At 18, Georgy Malenkov joined the party, was assigned as politruk, i.e., political commissar, to a Red army battalion. He was an effective indoctrinator, kept a keen check on the loyalty of his men. Within three years he moved up to be commissar for a regiment, then for a brigade, and finally for the whole "Eastern and Turkestan Fronts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Number 2 1/2 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Meeting of Lines. The civil wars ended and the zealous politruk went back to school. The party had its eye on him. In 1922 he entered Moscow's Higher Technological School. While he studied mechanical engineering, he kept on practicing political technique. He became boss of the school's Communist Party cell. Then, by a chance not clearly known, Student Malenkov met and impressed Stalin, who whisked him from mechanical to political engineering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Number 2 1/2 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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