Word: bolshevik
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...Eaton was imprisoned with "bishops, priests, princes and a drug peddler" in a Bolshevik prison for two months and undoubtedly underwent harrowing experiences. Said he: "I was arrested in Moscow on a charge of being a spy, although I have no idea where the rumor originated. . . I was brought before the most remarkable woman in Russia, Simanova, known as 'The Merciless,' and the real chief of the Foreign Department. She is less than 30 years of age, beautiful, and a blonde with blue eyes. After questioning me she demanded that I confess that...
...Bolshevik critics attacked both authors from a purely Marxian viewpoint, but were harsher to Lunacharsky than to Shakespeare. They thought Shakespeare's play was capable of "'proletarian" interpretation, though as produced in Moscow, gave a "disgusting, vulgar, ignorant, bloodthirsty" effect...
...Russian (or Eastern) Orthodox Church has about 3,000,000 members in the U. S. and church property to the value of $3,000,000. Its cathedral is a smallish minaretted building on 97th street, just off Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. In pre-Bolshevik days, it was subsidized from Moscow. Now it is penniless...
...reasoning of a Bolshevik is beyond the understanding of healthy people and nations. Even before the war the Russians were eccentric. At one moment the Russian was the polished European, strongely under the influence of French civilization; and a moment later he was the suave, but savage Oriental from Central Asia. It was this constant struggle between the East and West whose outward manifestations made the Russian so difficult to understand...
...Bolshevik Psychology...