Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayakovsky had joined the Bolshevik party at thirteen; been arrested and jailed for subversive activity by fifteen; and emerged from prison at sixteen determined to become a poet. In 1910, he entered a recently formed Futurist circle, much influenced by Marinetti and the Italians. But from the beginning the Russian Futurists were more given to formal literary experimentation and less given to aesthetic polemic than the Italians. And when Marinetti arrived in Russia in early 1914 to sign the Russians on to his own Futurist Program, he was rebuffed...
...government, despite his fanatical ambitions and licentious behavior. And there are Nicholas' ministers and advisers, his generals and soldiers. All of these people struggle with each other against the background of the Russo-Japanese War, the mounting discontent of the Russian people, World War I and finally the Bolshevik takeover...
...Medvedev, 46, is a schoolteacher turned historian. Like his twin brother, the prominent geneticist Zhores, he is a dedicated Communist and patriot, who believes in Marxism-Leninism and its vision of the future.* When he set about writing Let History Judge, Medvedev was motivated neither by disillusionment with the Bolshevik experiment nor by a desire to discredit the present regime. What he wanted, instead, was to enlighten fellow Soviet Communists about 50 years of their own history and thereby keep the study of "that prolonged disease known as 'the cult of personality' " from being monopolized by bourgeois historians...
...should be a "chosen people" who were "closer to God" than the rest of humanity. "This is religious racism!" Malik shouted. "Religious fascism!" Tekoah, trembling with rage, stepped to the rostrum. Jews, he said, indeed seemed to have been chosen-"chosen to suffer." In a telling swipe at his Bolshevik adversary, he noted that Zionists had been battling imperialism "long before the Russian and Ukrainian people were on the maps of the world...
...citing unpublished and previously unknown memoirs and monographs written by victims of the purges. Performing a delicate balancing act, he manages to deliver a scathing indictment of the Soviet regime during the quarter of a century that Stalin ruled, while at the same time endorsing the goals of the Bolshevik revolution and acquitting Lenin of responsibility for the crimes committed by his successor. In answer to the question of why Lenin permitted Stalin to contend for power in the early '20s, Medvedev writes: "Lenin's natural enthusiasm for people often led him into mistakes." He also criticizes Lenin...