Word: yaroslav
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Yaroslav Smeliakov
...best these were guesses. It was no guess that, on the face of the Sino-Soviet pact, world Communism could cheer another notable diplomatic and propaganda triumph in Asia. On the platform of Moscow's Yaroslav station just before he took the train back to Peking, China's Mao made a not unreasonable prediction: "This [treaty] will inevitably influence not only the flourishing of the great powers, China and the Soviet Union, but also the future of all mankind...