Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signed for the debut of a revised Kiss in Toronto last summer and for the London run in the fall but would not commit to Broadway until she was given more to do, notably a film-fantasy scene set during the Bolshevik Revolution. Before that was written, Rivera found her role a sort of < decorative overlay, a symbol without a persona. It demanded a lot of her as a singer but not as a dancer or an actress. "I wanted to be a part of the story," she says. "Even now, I can't remember a show where I spent...
...bluff, a primitive myth created by Yeltsin and his entourage. Ever since Gorbachev's reforms, despite all the suffering, Russians realize there is no way back. You should see this political struggle from a different angle. It is the executive branch that is seeking to use neo-Bolshevik methods. Entire sections of the former Communist Party Central Committee simply drifted into the President's administration, together with their archives, safes and even their telephones. Under the guise of working for a democratic President, they are simply restoring old party ways. They have no use for laws, the constitution or democracy...
...safe for Yeltsin to leave Russia then, amid the turmoil preceding the April 25 referendum? Could he even survive until the vote? The legislative bodies, packed with industry bosses, collective-farm managers and apparatchiks elected under the old communist system, had no intention of going quietly into what their Bolshevik forebears called the dustheap of history. The Supreme Soviet began meeting Sunday afternoon to discuss Yeltsin's actions, while the Congress of People's Deputies was likely to be called into its own session starting Wednesday...
...Rapallo Conference of 1918, the newly-formed Bolshevik leadership of the Soviet Union, led by Lenin, did the same thing when they decided they simply had no obligation to pay back any of the millions of dollars in loans incurred during World War I back to their debtors. But at least they didn't try to make anyone believe they had a legal right...
Taranovsky, who was born in what is now Tartu, Estonia, grew up in Tartu, St. Petersburg and Kharkov. His father, a professor of Slavic law, emigrated with his family to Yugoslavia soon after the Bolshevik revolution...