Word: proletarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ease and rapidity with which an American collector of antiques can rush to Europe and squander fifteen hundred thousand dollars for trifles of remote historical interest strikes the mere proletarian with a sense of awe. Such a performance is in itself history--or it would have been, if the headline under which the newspaper report of the latest expatiation appeared. "Resenbach Bae's With Napoleon's White Breeches," were not more suggestive of fast work by a second-story man than of dignified collecting. One visualizaes, somehow, not a fine old antiquarian, displaying his acquisitions with solemn pride...
...Bolshevik critics attacked both authors from a purely Marxian viewpoint, but were harsher to Lunacharsky than to Shakespeare. They thought Shakespeare's play was capable of "'proletarian" interpretation, though as produced in Moscow, gave a "disgusting, vulgar, ignorant, bloodthirsty" effect...
...dramatic picture, artistically conceived, realistically executed. But we ask whether there is not yet a third Lunacharsky addition to the prefacial exponent and the dramatist- Lunacharsky the Bolshevik Commissioner of Education and head of the censorship-and whether the latter doesn't think this production of our national proletarian theatre needs a heavy dose of blue pencil...
...believe in one god, matter and its inherent forces, the father and creator of everything, and the revolutionary spirit of communism that was proclaimed by its great fighters, Marx and Lenin, hallowed by the blood of countless proletarian martyrs...
Five years ago "the red flag of organized international revolt against capital was raised over proletarian Russia" by Lenin in the Kremlin at Moscow. It was the birthday of the Communist (Third) Internationale...