Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lenin's Problem. It was barely 26 years since Lenin faced the knotty question : would it be necessary to sacrifice the Bolshevik Revolution for the sake of a successful Communist Revolution in Germany, the key country of Europe? In Berlin, history in the peculiar form of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck, now a member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, had begun the Spartacus revolt against the Weimar Republic. It was Communism's first bid for control of Germany. It failed when Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed and their bodies thrown in the Spree Canal...
...Keys of the Kingdom (Gregory Peck, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rosa Stradner; TIME...
...facts of young Djugashvili's early biography are scarcely more relevant than those eagerly reported from wartime visitors to Moscow: that Stalin speaks Russian with a thick Georgian accent; that he has been thrice married, that his present wife, Rosa, is the sister of the Vice President of the Council of the People's Commissars, Lazar Kaganovitch; that Stalin is rather formal with his sons (one of whom is a German prisoner) but occasionally romps with his rugged daughter; that he works at any hour of the day & night; that he prefers his office in the Storaya Ploshad...
...Keys of the Kingdom (Gregory Peck, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rosa Stradner; TIME...
...Keys of the Kingdom (Gregory Peck, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rosa Stradner; TIME...