Word: vishniak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Foreign News writer and head of the Russian Desk, was asked last July to prepare this major study of the Russian economy, he turned first to TIME'S own extensive files on the subject. They are the repository of every hard fact that Ehlers and his associates, Mark Vishniak and Vera Kovarsky, have been able to glean from their painstaking weekly analysis of Soviet publications, official reports, government directives and statistics, from our correspondents and other sources...
...Communist Central Committee's daily, offer more propaganda than enlightenment Economic publications like Planned Economy, monthlies like Soviet State and Law, periodicals like Culture and Life and the Literary Gazette are more likely to run a Stalin homily than information useful to foreigners. But patience is usually rewarded. Vishniak, for instance, noted one day that Pravda had expanded from four pages to six. The extra two pages, he soon found out, were devoted to a learned controversy over a system of philology founded by the late Nikolai
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...