Word: proletariats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...species of humanity." In bloody October 1917, barrack-like Smolny became the stronghold from which Bolsheviks defied and finally conquered Kerensky. In the ex-finishing school's assembly hall met the Second All-Union Congress of Soviets to proclaim the Bolshevik Government and the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. For months Lenin and Trotsky lived and worked in schoolgirls' rooms at Smolny, signing death warrants, decrees and proclamations...
...Japan not only the fighting services, but also the Emperor, the peasants and the proletariat are out to soak the bourgeois rich. Before the soaking begins this week, the Diet was edified by a discourse from ingenious Mr. Koki Hirota. A stone-cutter's son, he once tried to get a job in the household of Captain John Joseph Pershing, then U. .S. military attache in Tokyo, who turned him down because "his English is so poor." Today Koki Hirota is Foreign Minister. "Please tell General Pershing," said he not long ago to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, "that Hirota...
Protesting this Tory sop to the proletariat, Labor Party Leader "Old George" Lansbury snapped: "Sooner or later a return must be made to the policy of large scale public works laid down by our [Labor] Government...
Paradoxically the Labor or Socialist landslide last week snuffed out the Communists. They took the worst beating Britons have given them in years, proved by their utter downfall that King George V's proletariat is not going Red but resolutely pink...
...commonplace now, after a series of hard experiences, to speak of the dangers of an academic proletariat with all its cruel consequences not only for the persons directly concerned but also for the nation as a whole," he writes. "Moreover, it is hardly worth while to affirm that the members of such a proletariat--disappointed, unemployed, and equipped with a relatively high standard of mental training and skill--very often become the bearers of a radical revolutionary attitude...