Word: proletarianization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned to the U.S., lived the life of a well-publicized fugitive, skipping from town to town. He wrote an autobiography, Proletarian Journey. In 1938, he was arrested at a brother's home in Lawrence, and sent back to prison in North Carolina. After four years, he was paroled...
...mode of life tenaciously wedded to the past and resistant to all progress, obstinately refusing any kind of change for the reason that all change was brought about by outsiders." Unlike the rest of Quebec City's picture-postcard prettiness, St. Sauveur is a wretched place: its proletarian "mulots" are ignorant and desperately poor, its bourgeois "soyeux" (silken ones) often bigoted and pretentious...
...Trades Union Congress and the Labor Party took over the paper -but couldn't make ends meet. Capitalists Beaverbrook and Rothermere knew better than the Herald's proletarian-hearted editors what the British workingman wanted to read...
...Lenin picked as first policeman of the proletarian revolution was borrowed from the Polish aristocracy. When Felix Dzerzhinsky was made head of the Bolshevists' CHEKA, he wrote to his wife: "I am now in the front line and I want to be merciless, to tear the enemy to pieces as a watchdog would...
...power monopolists). In 1917, in the assembly hall of a swank girls' school in Petrograd, behind unwashed windows that excluded the sky, Lenin stood up. His ill-fitting, overlong trousers flapped about his feet. Gripping the rostrum, he said quietly: "We shall now proceed to construct the proletarian socialist order in Russia...