Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What's all the shooting for about Krivitsky's name being really Ginsberg when the letter he wrote to the French Minister of the Interior at the time of his break with Stalin (reprinted in the Socialist Appeal of Dec. n, 1937) begins: "The undersigned, Samuel Ginsberg, bearing in the U. S. S. R. as a Soviet citizen the name of Walter Krivitsky, and the political pseudonym Walter, born June 28, 1899, at Podwoloczyska, Poland, has been a member of the C. P. S. U. since...
...Croix de Guerre, three citations for bravery. In the autumn of 1919 he went back to take his job at the Lycée Condorcet. Again it eluded him. He stayed just two weeks before his old teacher Herriot persuaded him to run for Parliament as a Radical Socialist candidate from his native Vaucluse district...
...Herriot (later to be three times Premier, now president of the French Chamber of Deputies) was the leading figure of the growing Radical Socialist Party. From him Daladier took his first political color. Neither very radical nor very socialist, the Party represents a conservative group, the great peasant and small trader class of France. As a Radical Socialist, Daladier was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and has been regularly re-elected for 20 years...
...count far more than her planes and tanks, more than her standing army of more than two million. It will be a test of the theories of Lenin as well as of the practices of Stalin, of the hold that socialism-or of a social structure that calls itself socialist-has on the loyalties of 170,126,000 people. What has it given them? How firmly would they unite to defend it? After the purges and crises, after the Five-Year Plans, how much enthusiasm remains for the system that gave rise to them...
...finishing school; on the night of Nov. 6, 1917, a few hours before it was to be called to order, a short, baldheaded, tireless revolutionary named Lenin stepped out of hiding before the delegates, stilled their applause, said laconically, "Comrades, we shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order...