Word: bolshevik
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...Augustine '01) and Serge Esmereldovich Upgobkin (Paul Siemens '98) enter the scene. These minor female characters' highly-charged dialogue is hysterical by itself, but the combination of ironic political statements and the bizarreness of the situation is pure comic genius. Translation: even if you don't know a Bolshevik from a Menshevik, you'll still laugh...
...systems in Europe. In 1935 he warned the House of Commons of the importance not only of "self-preservation but also of the human and the world cause of the preservation of free governments and of Western civilization against the ever advancing sources of authority and despotism." His anti-Bolshevik policies had failed. By espousing anti-Nazi policies in his wilderness years between 1933 and 1939, he ensured that when the moment of final confrontation between Britain and Hitler came in 1940, he stood out as the one man in whom the nation could place its trust. He had decried...
...says of his youth, "Like most people with some political consciousness in the '30s, I thought the world was coming to an end." So they fought; they yelled on street corners, they rallied, they discussed the fate of their turbulent world in which Stalin was the successor of the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler was threatening to conquer Europe in a fit of anti-Semitic and racist rage and poverty in America was pervasive...
...weeks ago you called me a Bolshevik, which I am not. Now I notice that you call the Searchlight on Congress a Ku Klux Klan organ, which it is not. The Searchlight on Congress has nothing to do with the Klan. You have, since it appears that you are supporting the Klan Kandidate Koolidge. UPTON SINCLAIR Pasadena, Calif...
...Echoes of a Native Land, Serge Schmemann provides a unique glimpseinto a set of lives within Russia as they were affected by the Bolshevik revolution. The events of the past are presented according to theirsignificance in Koltsovo, not Moscow, and the result is a narrative that helps explain the psychological effects of communism and the feelings of a set of rural people in the face of a new political order...