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...Bukharin, unshaken in his commitment to the Russian revolution, but confronted with the failure of the opposition to Stalin, achieving a political stance was more difficult. Condemned as a traitor, he determined both to admit, indeed, to help the Prosecutor establish, that in his untimely opposition to Stalin, he was no better than a traitor. At the same time, he tried to deny with all the irony and passion still left to him that he was in fact in the service of a foreign country. That this denial was in Merleau-Ponty's account, so difficult to make...

Author: By Timothy GOULD (copyright and The Author), S | Title: Phenomena Past Adventures | 1/16/1970 | See Source »

Asked about Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Molotov said: "She is three times a traitor-to her fatherland, to her father and to her children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Voice from the Past | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...park service attendant in the visitors' center is genuinely helpful. He reminds us who fought at Saratoga and what the name of that famous traitor was. He also hawks a slide show (12 minutes every half hour on the half hour...

Author: By Carole J. Uhlaner, | Title: Thanksgiving Lexington and Concord | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

...dramatic results are explosively and corrosively alive. But when he goes rummaging through history for his theme, he is far less successful. This play is about Alfred Redl, a homosexual officer in the army of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire who was blackmailed by the Russians into turning traitor. Unfortunately, Osborne's characters are not immersed in history; they merely wear it like a costume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Tully's most startling assertion is that months in advance of the event a Polish traitor handed a U.S. Defense Department agent detailed plans of last year's Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Intelligence strategists, Tully asserts, then imaginatively suggested making the plans public in an effort to force a Russian change of heart. As Tully tells it, Washington overruled the idea on grounds that the U.S. could not afford such dangerous brinkmanship during the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spying on Sparrows et al. | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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