Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federation of Labor, the C. G. T. (Confederation Generate du Travail) headed by Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat, which had been summoned to rise against Naziism. This aid to an aggressor government places in jeopardy the lives of millions upon millions of human beings, including millions of workers...
...news agency. As the week advanced, Communist cohorts from Moscow poured in after the advancing Red Army, brought 100,000 portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Marx, tons of "educational leaflets." In each town and village, soviet municipal rule was set up under councils of men and women of the proletariat. Thus at Barszczewo the new town soviet is made up of peasants owning no land, factory workers and an impecunious carpenter. Most of the new Soviets in what is now Russian Poland promptly dispatched "greetings to Our Liberator, Joseph Stalin...
...Tsarist general in 1831, circled Warsaw to the North; SimeonBudenny,with the Red Cavalry, had taken Lwow; a third force was ready to encircle Warsaw from the South; Dzerzhinsky, Polish-born nobleman, ruthless organizer of the Cheka, waited outside Warsaw to spring the uprising of the Warsaw proletariat...
...proletariat did not uprise. Marshal Tukachevsky drove on north. Budenny waited at Lwow. French General Weygand got to Warsaw (creating a lot of bitterness because Poles were always sore at French claims of saving the city), and the Bolshevik armies pounded home faster than they came...
Confused, disputed, the Russian defeat before Warsaw had one plain effect on Russian intellectual life. Ranked as one of the decisive battles of the world, it changed Comintern policy, stopped plans to employ the Red Army to work with the European proletariat, forced Lenin to give up immediate hopes of world revolution, directed Comintern agitation to China and the Far East. Russians decided that they had underestimated Polish national aspirations, and nationalist ambitions everywhere; when Trotsky fell, the defeat was blamed on him, when Tukachevsky was purged, he was called responsible; latest official history of the Communist Party, the Mein...