Word: socialistics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written on March 14, 1948, by a student at Charles University, a man in his mid-twenties, who is doing advanced work in both English and Russian. He is a Social Democrat. His father, who is a carpenter in a village twenty-five miles from Prague, is a National Socialist. I pass this letter on, not as the whole story in Czechoslovakia, but as a characteristic student opinion. F. O. Matthiessen...
Never had Moscow's shabby, musty Great Lecture Hall in Polytechnic Plaza been more tightly packed. People who could not find seats sat in each other's laps or in the aisles. The occasion was a lecture entitled: "Love, Marriage and Family in Socialist Society...
...Markos went to Kavalla in northern Greece, a tobacco center where many wretched fellow refugees from Turkey had gathered. Markos joined the Tobacco Workers' Union and the Communist Youth Organization. Nicolas Zacha-riades had just formally transformed the Socialist-Labor Party into the KKE (Kommounistikon Komma Ellados-Hellenic Communist Party) and brought it into the Third International. From then on Markos' life was the into-jail, out-ofjail of Balkan revolutionaries. Called up for army service, he went into the cavalry. "I managed to acquire good military knowledge," he says. He also acquired a dishonorable discharge...
...center parties raised the same question that had precipitated the Czech Communist coup, asked the government if it was true that Finland's Communist-bossed police had recently been loaded with Communists; 2) a Communist rally was told by Hertta Kuusinen, fortyish daughter of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic's President Otto Kuusinen, that "Finland must follow the same road as Czechoslovakia...
...year later, Socialist Editor George Lansbury revived the paper. At first, unpaid volunteers wrote the stories. Lord Northcliffe, amazed at the Herald's shoestring survival, dubbed it "the Miracle of Fleet Street...