Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet water transport is not going well, Water Transport Commissar Nikolai Pakhomov was ousted last week and his commissariat turned over to Secret Political Police Chief Nikolai Yezhov, who is very close to Dictator Stalin. Since most of Russia's new canals have been dug by forced labor under Yezhov, he is the logical choice...
...Soviet rail transport is not going well, Railway Commissar Aleksei Bakulin was ousted last week and his commissariat turned over to Heavy Industry Commissar Lazar Kaganovich, who is very close to the Dictator. Since in nearly every part of Russia delinquent railwaymen were lined up on station platforms and dispatched by firing squads at the orders of Lazar Kaganovich the last time he was Railway Commissar, he is the logical choice...
...symphony had its première, a much more widely heralded piece of music was broadcast by the NBC Symphony under Conductor Artur Rodzinski: Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Composer of the famed opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk and onetime white-haired boy of Soviet music, Shostakovich had lain for two years in official outer darkness, his opera banned and his Fourth Symphony confiscated because of "Leftist" modernistic tendencies (TIME, April 4). First of his works to be O. K.'d by Moscow critics since his downfall, the Fifth Symphony was supposed to indicate...
Died. Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin, 65, famed Russian basso (Boris Godounov); of pernicious anemia; in Paris. A prodigious eater and drinker, he disliked Communism and his four estates in Russia were confiscated by the Soviet Government...
Last fortnight the Soviet film industry released its official answer in the U. S. An arresting character study of Nikolai Lenin during the last days of the Provisional Kerensky Government Lenin in October went far out of its way (but never off the present "party line") to convince U. S. cinemaudiences that Stalin was Lenin's fair-haired boy, that Lenin trusted him much more than he did "idiotic" pessimists like Trotsky, "traitors" like Leo Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev. With youthful, black-browed Stalin standing stolidly at his right, puffing on a Hawkshaw pipe, Lenin (Boris V. Shchukin) addresses...