Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was imprisoned in Northern Russia in 1918, waiting to be executed for anti-Bolshevik activities when he learned that Lenin had personally intervened to save his life...
...shot that some observers had predicted, the Russians showed their guests the launch of a radio-and-TV-relay satellite named Molniya (Lightning). About the only clue from the Moscow summit was a negative one: in the list of slogans promulgated last week for the 49th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, a key phrase was missing. For the first time since 1918, the Soviets failed to say, "Workers of the world, unite...
...credo as old as the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. But last week Sovietskaya Kultura, the official publication of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, suddenly came out for a party line. Sadly lacking, says the paper, are nightclubs in the Black Sea resort area. As things are, the only pleasant memories a vacationer takes home are "the temperature of the water and how the magnolias were blooming in the park." What the proletariat needs is "marvelous little places-nightclubs for lovers and quiet evening gathering places for family people...
...February and October revolutions. Unfortunately, he often prefers to combine and compromise conflicting accounts instead of selecting his facts and taking a more definitive stand. For example, there is a minor but interesting disagreement among historians about a man named Roman Malinovsky, who was either a police spy, a Bolshevik agent, or a double agent, depending on whom you read. After digesting all the available evidence, Ulam decides that "Malinovsky himself, it is obvious, was not simply a cold-blooded police agent, but a man divided in his loyalties." All well and good; but to ask the author...
...Bolsheviks is solid biography which frequently benefits from its pretensions to history of a broader scope. Ulam's discussions of Lenin's youth and the Party in exile are exhaustive, and his treatment of the 1917 revolutions is both thorough and fair-minded. In discussing the February revolution, for example, after giving two pages of "the bare facts," Ulam asks, "What did really happen?" He then summarizes the liberal, non-Bolshevik Socialist, monarchist, Trotskyite, and Leninist positions before adding his own interpretation. Equally impressive are his analyses of Lenin as the ruler of a state. Here he gives a very...