Word: menshevik
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...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...
...Aleksii, and of all of Kushner's characters--knee-slapping irony and witticisms combined with genuine emotional depth--to life. He leaves the audience giggling uncontrollably with lines such as "You're practically bugging me," spoken to the closely-following and nearly-blind Serge; and "God is a Menshevik! God is a petty bourgeouse!" in a predeath revelation...
...Bolsheviks hissed when speakers were soft on America, but the predominant noise-making of the crowd was wholesome Menshevik applause. The biggest laugh of the evening greeted the remark that "Tanzania has invited Israel to set up their hotel system...
...circulation (24,000) for the liberal, anti-Communist magazine of which he was heart, soul and executive editor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Ukraine-born "Sol" Levitas came to the U.S. at 20, returned to Russia when the Revolution began in 1917, served briefly as the Menshevik vice mayor of Vladivostok, but tangled with the Bolsheviks and spent several years in their jails. Making his way back to the U.S. in 1923, he mostly lectured through the Roaring Twenties, in 1930 took over the New Leader, then the official mouthpiece of the U.S. Socialist Party. He turned it into...
When the Bolsheviks made their coup d'état and set up their Marxist-Leninist dictatorship in 1917, Vishinsky was running a Menshevik soup kitchen in the Zamoskvoretsky district. For three tough years, little was heard of Andrei Yanuarevich. Then in 1920 the civil war ended, and he was admitted to the triumphant Russian Communist Party. It was a switch many thousands of people in the professional classes, facing starvation or physical liquidation, made at that time. But it set him apart from the old Bolsheviks; he was for a long time suspect...