Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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4 p.m.: Lecture Series on Cultural Revolutions in East Asia. First Lecture by John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, on "China and the Cultural Revolution." Emerson Hall 201.
Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, he had been the second most powerful man in Soviet Russia and Lenin's obvious successor. At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed leader of the abortive revolution of 1905. In 1917 he returned to Russia...
And there was good reason for the careful protection. The papers were an invaluable source of documents and letters relating to the history of Soviet Russia and the men who made the revolution. Many of these documents clearly refuted the pro-Stalinist explanations of Russian history which were the product...
Since that time the merit of his decision has become increasingly clear. No scholar writing on Trotsky--or, for that matter, on the Russian Revolution -- can afford to overlook the Trotsky archives in Houghton library. In recent years even a few scholars from the Soviet Union have looked at the...
Revolution of Convenience. Most of the sales gain will result from what the company describes as "the revolution of convenience." From 25 factories in 19 states, Maryland Cup turns out containers for everything from coffee to carry-out chop suey, and its growing plastics division ranges from disposable glasses for...