Word: revolutionize
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TIME of Nov. 6 quotes New York Times Correspondent Tolischus' anecdote quoting Stalin as having reassured a Baltic foreign minister with the words, "Never mind, I'll protect you from these great Russians"-meaningful words turned meaningless because of a slight error. The reference is, of course, to...
Athens. The skills and habits on which "civilization" rests did not suddenly appear in Greece; they had been kicking around the Eastern Mediterranean for at least 1,000 years. This is made clear in Durant's history, the first written since full publication in 1936 of Sir Arthur Evans...
"Solon's peaceful revolution," says Durant, "is one of the encouraging miracles of history." He introduced a graduated income tax, created a popular assembly to check the old-fashioned aristocratic council, made the entire citizenry a panel from which jurors were chosen. The quarrelsome Athenians might not have stuck...
Is Russia pursuing an imperialistic policy or an international course of world revolution? Only Joseph Stalin knows the answer to this question, according to Michael Karpovich, associate professor of History, who gave the second of a series of broadcasts sponsored by the Harvard Guardian over station WEEI last Saturday.
The Kremlin may abandon the policy of world revolution for an attempt to regain Russia's prerevolutionary boundaries, or it may try to set up a series of puppet communistic dictatorships in Eastern Europe, Professor Karpovich believes.