Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could imagine a bleaker outcome of the promises of 1917," he said. In 1917 socialists were sure that world revolution was imminent. By 1923 this hope had dimmed, but there was still promise in the "unique Bolshevik revolution." With the Stalinist counter-revolution, this possibility, too, was gone, Shachtman said...
...Moscow for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Abdullah Sallal, the President of Republican Yemen, stopped off in Cairo to see his erstwhile benefactor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He could hardly have expected a warm reunion. Nasser had grown tired of propping up the unpopular Sallal, whose refusal to make peace with the Yemeni Royalists had cost him the support of even his own followers. Even so, Sallal was unprepared for the reception he got. In a brief and chilly meeting, Nasser advised him to resign and go into exile...
...cost of it all has been huge. The vicious civil war that followed the Bolshevik coup decimated the Russian population and laid waste the land. The Stalinist reign of terror destroyed millions of Russians, among them many of the most intelligent and talented, and put a permanent scar of guilt on the nation's psyche. Industrialization was accomplished only by forced labor and the long and severe deprivation of the populace. The self-defeating collectivization of agriculture was squeezed from the blood and brows of the stolid and melancholy peasantry. Fear has been the single most dominant characteristic...
Hard on the heels of its successful Venus landing, and just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia announced last week that its space scientists had carried out an automatic rendezvous, docking and separation of two unmanned earth satellites...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Russia: The Unfinished Revolution." On the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, NET Reporter Colette Shulman goes to Moscow to take a long, thoughtful look at the strong points and growing pains of the Russians. Included are talks with Poet Andrei Voznesensky, the late writer Ilya Ehrenburg, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Igor Tamm and Economist Alexander Birman...