Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ToPoland's President Ignacy Moscicki, Franklin Roosevelt telegraphed that he was "deeply shocked" by German bombings, for the moment withheld reply to Poland's suggestion that the U. S. extend its arms embargo to aggressive Soviet Russia...
...practically unique among latter-day Bolshevist or ex-Bolshevist writings in carrying authority for the sane Western mind. With the knowledge of an insider and the detachment of a historian, Souvarine shows how Stalin succeeded to Lenin's power, how Socialism miscarried in his hands, and why the Soviet-German non-aggression pact (TIME, Aug. 28) was no surprise...
...Examples: "Soviet Russia is the chief obstacle to Nazi ambition." A German-Russian alliance "will prove difficult of achievement until after the death of Stalin...
Other novels, with somewhat similar background, have been written by Russian exiles. Not one has become popular. (All the business went to such characteristic Soviet sagas as Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Gorky's Bystander...
...this portrait, Sergei (like other characters in the book) has more of the Russian character as portrayed by Tolstoy and Dostoevski than of that played up by Soviet fiction. Soviet critics explain that Russians have changed, grown cheerful, hygienic, machine-minded, athletic, non-acquisitive. They That Take the Sword suggests that the Russian character survives more stubbornly than any Soviet official confesses...