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...FLOWS HOME TO THE SEA-Mikhail Sholokhov-Knopf...
...Mikhail Sholokhov is a Russian Communist* who is also a Don Cossack-one of the proud, half-savage people who, neither Red nor White, fiercely and hopelessly resisted the Bolsheviks during 1917-21. In And Quiet Flows the Don (TIME, July 2, 1934) Sholokhov marshaled a big cast of Cossacks through the vicissitudes of war and revolution, left them at the brink of civil war. In this, its 777-page sequel, he carries them through that war to its last exhausted gasp in the Bolshevik triumph...
...purge of Marshal Mikhail Tukachevsky was partly caused by his objection to the revival of the powers of political commissars. The Finnish war, after Marshal Tukachevsky and 213 other officers had been liquidated, showed that they were right. Commissars were dismissed and the Soviet Army organ, Red Star, declared: "War does not tolerate dilettantism. . . . The great Stalin urges us to face reality and not lock ourselves in shells of ossified dogma. . . . The discipline of the Red Army must be stronger, sterner, and more exacting." Marshal Timoshenko told his officers: "Teach your troops only what is necessary for war and only...
...President Mikhail Kalinin there were worse bugs than those in the Soviet production machinery. Said he of his comrades: "They sit in a nest of bedbugs and discuss deep-mindedly what will be the peculiarities of men living under full-fledged Communism. They pronounce highbrow speeches on the education of children and breed bedbugs as best they...
...proposal could scarcely be carried out against Stalin's strong organization. During this and the subsequent crucial period the chief members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the Party's ruling body, were Stalin, Trotsky, Grigori Zinoviev, Leo Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky-seven little bottles hanging on the wall. In 1928 Trotsky was exiled from the U.S.S.R., in 1936 Zinoviev and Kamenev were tried for treason, found guilty, shot. Tomsky attended the trial, committed suicide. In 1938 Rykov and Bukharin went before the firing squad...