Word: vishniak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kerensky government, because they thought they would win. They were stunned at the results. Across Russia, an astonishing 50% of the eligibles voted; out of a total of 707 delegates, 370 were Social Revolutionaries, only 775 Bolsheviks. Seventeen hours after it met, the Constituent Assembly was destroyed. Mark Vishniak, senior member of TIME'S Russian desk since 1946, was a Social Revolutionary delegate from the district of Yaroslav, and was elected Secretary of the Constituent Assembly. His retrospective account of what happened the day democracy died in Russia...
...Gaulin, Ezra Goodman, Eldon Griffiths, Alan Hall, Sam Halper, Carter Harman, Barker T. Hartshorn, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Theodore E. Kalem, Douglas S. Kennedy, Essie Lee,' Byron D. Mack, Peter Mathews, Robert McLaughlin Martin O'Neill, Richard Oulahan, Jr., Robert Parker, George B. Post, Richard Seamon, Mark Vishniak...
TIME has had a Russian desk since 1946. Its senior member, Mark Vishniak, was born in Moscow, where he became a respected journalist and lawyer. He was a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and secretary-general of the constitutional assembly in 1918. The following year, with the Bolsheviks in power, Vishniak fled to France, and eventually to the U.S. To help dig out the story of what is really happening in Russia today, Vishniak relies on his close contacts with Russian exiles, a filing-cabinet memory of his own days in Russia, and constant reading of Russian periodicals...
...pursue the subject ("It's too lonesome a job"). Instead, he became a reporter for the Philadelphia Record. During his 15 years as a newspaperman, he specialized in economics, labor and world communism. He came to TIME two years ago from the New York Herald Tribune. Vishniak was born and educated in Moscow, where he became a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. After the Bolshevik revolution he fled to France and, from 1920 to 1940, taught international law and edited a Russian-language quarterly in Paris. Miss Kovarsky, who was born in Russia and educated in France...
Marr, who advocated one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. From long experience Vishniak sat back to see which way the Marxian doctrinal ax would fall. His vigilance was rewarded by an 8,000-word blockbuster in Pravda from Stalin himself, demolishing the "false" foundations of the Marr theory and setting everybody straight. It also made a story for TIME'S July 3 issue-and another example of the editors' continuing attempt to convey the ways of the Soviet to TIME'S readers...