Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast (710 pages), panoramic novel of life in Russia from 1903 to 1929. Feltrinelli's agent brought a manuscript to Italy, and a translation was made. Meanwhile the powerful Union of Soviet Writers got hold of the novel, decided that its "cumulative effect" was to depict the Bolshevik revolution "as if it were the great crime in Russian history." Extensive rewriting was "suggested...
Czech Red leaders speak more of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution than of the man of the moment in the Kremlin. They have not yet fully recognized the Soviet Party Congress or rehabilitated one victim of Stalinism. Party newspapers shy away from Moscow's struggles. They are always ready to jump either...
...noisy confusion compounded of incessant oratory, the rumble of tanks and the clinking of glasses, the Communist world last week celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Prague a 105-ft. statue of Stalin was bathed in floodlights. In Budapest a monument to 24 Soviet soldiers killed in the Hungarian "counterrevolution" was unveiled. In Ulan Bator the elite of Outer Mongolia were treated to an address by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav...
...power had provided all those things and more. But, as always happens when the gentry are having a ball, the kitchen help and field hands were harder pressed than ever. In the mines and factories of Russia's satellites last week, tens of millions of people "celebrated" the Bolshevik Revolution fittingly by working an extra shift without...
...Shostakovich has long since recanted his sins and been allowed once again to sing for his supper. The song he sang last week, his brand-new Eleventh Symphony, was supposed to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Actually, it was dedicated not to the big (1917) Bolshevik Revolution but to the lesser, abortive rebellion of 1905. The composition, too, was lesser and abortive...