Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...readers throughout the Western world. It was a bestseller in the U.S., and a 1951 dramatization by Sidney Kingsley, with Claude Rains in the central role, was a hit on Broadway. Following Darkness, Koestler wrote several powerfully antitotalitarian books, including Arrival and Departure (1943) and The Yogi and the Commissar (1945), and an eloquent contribution to The God That Failed (1950), a collection of essays by former members of the Communist Party...
...Yugoslavia and the last of Josip Broz Tito's comrades-in-arms still in power; after a long illness; in Zagreb. A Croatian lawyer and a Communist Party member since 1933, he joined Tito's partisan army during World War II and served as its political commissar, later rising to membership in the party's ruling Politburo. Under the rotating system of collegial presidency in use since Tito's death, Bakaric was due to become chief of state this spring...
...railway worker, he was born in 1914 in the village of Nagutskoye in the northern Caucasus. At times a telegraph operator and boatman on the Volga River, Andropov began his political career at 22, when he became an organizer for the Young Communist League. After serving as a political commissar on the Finnish front during World War II, he worked in a series of party jobs, gradually gaining a reputation as an expert on Eastern Europe. As Moscow's Ambassador to Hungary, he played a key role in orchestrating the brutal Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolution...
...military takeover, the Communist Party has not recovered. Army officers hardly conceal their contempt for the party, which they consider a source of corruption and mismanagement. At the provincial level, many generals have taken over top party posts, and every factory, service agency or government office has its military commissar...
...railway worker from the northern Caucasus, Andropov was a telegraph operator and Volga boatman before he joined the Young Communist League. He served as political commissar on the Finnish front during World War II and eventually joined the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, rising rapidly to the rank of ambassador. While Ambassador to Budapest in 1956, he helped supervise the brutal Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising. Though not previously a professional secret policeman, Andropov was named top cop of the Soviet Union in 1967. He quickly became known for the efficiency with which he repressed all forms of political, religious...