Word: proletarianism
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Picasso's Proletarian Pegasus...
...with the largest holdings would receive the least in return; only small savings accounts of 5,000 crowns ($100) or less would be exchanged at the 5 to 1 rate. Result: to deprive workers and peasants of their earnings, force them to work harder to stay alive in the proletarian paradise...
...face that Moscow turned to the world this week was, except for the missing mustache, disconcertingly the same-fat, inscrutable, steelyeyed. Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov and his fellow heirs to the proletarian kingdom of Joseph Stalin had stepped into power with every outward sign of unity...
...shapeless grey cap and simple soldier's tunic. Like Stalin he proved himself devious, inscrutable and cruel, but where the master had muscle, Malenkov is as pale and pasty as the cream buns he loves. He was almost certainly the son of a Czarist subaltern-an offense against "proletarian biology" which he long tried to expiate by scolding Marxist scholars for their "researches into who is [a man's] grandmother . . ." Too young in 1917 to become a hero of the October Revolution, he is of the new generation of Soviet...
Pythagorism, cried the magazine, had reared its transmigrated head in the proletarian writings of Vasily Semenovich Grossman, an engineer-turned-author who spent World War II as a combat correspondent with the Red army, and had moved on to high regard in Communist literary circles. For the Right Cause, Grossman's unfinished tome on the battle of Stalingrad, had been certified as dialectically sound by Moscow's literati. But after it appeared, Kommunist angrily reversed the verdict: For the Right Cause was "permeated" with the wrong slant. Pythagorist Grossman, warned Pravda a few days later, had better recant...