Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believed in the Morgan-Mendelian theory of genetics (i.e., hereditary characteristics are controlled by genes which cannot be altered by ordinary environmental conditions). That belief made him a heretic in Russia, where science must take the Communist view that Environment Is All. Last year Zhebrak was roundly denounced by Pravda for admitting in the U.S. weekly, Science, that many Russian geneticists still uphold Mendel's laws (TIME, Sept...
Moscow's Pravda did some boasting last week in honor of Press Day, marking its 36th birthday. In 30 years, said Pravda, the Russian press has grown from 884 to 7,163 papers with 31,100,000 circulation. Pravda alone claimed 2,200,000, which made it Russia's biggest and the world's fourth biggest daily.* Pioneer Pravda, for young Communists, was second with 1,000,000, and Izvestia third with...
This growth was the "clearest index of true freedom of the press." How was this freedom defined? Said Pravda: "Every line in our newspapers and journals must be devoted to Bolshevik propaganda...
Odessa hadn't caught up with bebop yet, but it already had too many low American habits to suit Pravda. "How can we get rid of swing and jitterbugging," Pravda demanded to know, "when . " . vulgar melodies [like] Pussycats, Crazy Girl and White Moth sound in the public places . . . pampering low-grade tastes . . . while folk and real ball dances are unavailable...
...Shostakovich it was a second fiery purification. In 1936, his clangorous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk offended Stalin's ever-pricked ears, and the Pravda denunciation that followed kept Shostakovich under a cloud for five years. But this time the guilty composers did not need to suffer so prolonged a darkness. The road to quick redemption had been charted by another great Soviet artist, Cinema Director Sergei Eisenstein. Several times damned for deviation (notably for Ivan the Terrible), he always recanted, begged forgiveness, and put a little more pig iron in his next picture...