Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drapes of eggshell rayon silk, fully a verst of it, hung from the ceiling to the floor. Behind the table stood a large portrait of Stalin, edged in red. There was no soft music, no suave couturiers. The mannequins (rather plump) sported no fancy make-up or nifty hairdos. Commissars, scholars, artists faced the circular platform. Paulina Semionovna Zhemchuzhina (Madame Molotov), head of the Soviet Cosmetics Trust, was there, chatting brightly with Textiles Vice Commissar Dora Moissevna Khazan. In Moscow's House of Fashions, tailors and dressmakers of the state were displaying what the well-dressed tovarish should wear...
...During Stalin's vacation the Politburo got into a fight. Communist Central Committee Secretary Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Communist Party Control Commission Andrei Andreiev and People's Commissar of Foreign Trade Anastas Mikoyan urged a moderate Soviet foreign policy. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenti Beria were for a more aggressive policy. Molotov had acted on this basis at the last London conference. When Stalin returned, he threw his weight on the moderate side and stressed the overwhelming importance for Russia of getting along with the U.S. and Britain at least long enough...
Nobody (except Stalin) could say just what Beria's replacement meant, UNO delegates saw a connection with Vice Commissar Vishinsky's unexplained absence from London. Was the Red Army about to blow its top? President Mikhail Kalinin had publicly admitted it would be tough to keep returning soldiers down on the farm (TIME, Nov. 19). Some observers guessed that Trouble Shooter Beria had been given the job of holding down discontent...
...Foreign Ministers had directed, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky, U.S. Ambassador William Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr hurried to Bucharest to put into effect the new deal in the Balkans. These three, of all the millions who cared, would be the first to discover whether the Moscow conference had been a genuine advance over London, or just a meeting with a friendlier "tone...
...faith and mind were approached in a very different way in two other books, The Yogi and the Commissar (TIME, June 4) by Arthur Koestler, brilliant ex-Communist novelist (Darkness at Noon), and The Perennial Philosophy (TIME, Oct. 1) by Novelist Aldous Huxley (Antic Hay, Brave New World). Koestler's book was a series of essays; its theme: modern man is caught between the choice of a philosophy of action (The Commissar) and a philosophy of quietism (The Yogi). Man's hope: a synthesis of the two. Author Koestler was more optimistic than hopeful...