Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week in Paris, emboldened by the example of Alexander Barmine, Walter Krivitsky declared: "For 18 years I have been a Soviet agent. I now denounce the Stalin regime as more and more in opposition to the true interests of the Soviet Union and the proletariat...
...would write great historical novels "must show us character in relation to events greater than individuals, and yet he must show us character first of all as itself alone." He predicted that when a truly distinguished novel about the class struggle is written, it will not be dubbed "proletariat," but will stand as a great novel in its own right...
...suddenly nominated for membership in the all-powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party and to become Leader of the Profintern. The Profintern is the Red International of Labor Unions, created in 1921 by the Comintern of Moscow, whose business is to make "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...thus downhearted was Mme Chiang, the Generalissimo's spunky Christian wife, but she at last bitterly concluded that China is not going to be succored by any other government. Appealing over the heads of other governments to the world proletariat, desperate Mme Chiang last week affirmed: "The workers hold in their hands the power to compel observance of treaties, even if that power is relinquished by governments, and the resolve of Labor to uphold human rights is enshrined in the hearts of our people...
Just a year ago Germany and Japan entered into a notably loose treaty against the Comintern, or international federation of Communist Parties, which promotes the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" (TIME, Nov. 30). This treaty is carefully drawn so that technically it is not directed against Russia, and for that matter Russia is not technically behind the Comintern-these two transparent subterfuges nicely balancing each other. Last week in Rome, while Moscow was celebrating Bolshevism's 20th birthday as a State (see above), a peculiar ceremony was performed. It did not suit II Duce simply to bring Italy...