Bolshevik

...by a Hungarian, Arthur Koestler. Fleming calls it "the most politically effective novel of the past century." Its protagonist is an old Bolshevik, falsely arrested in Stalin's purges, who relives his life in flashbacks. When the Soviet Union...

In this article: John V. Fleming, Arthur Koestler, Communism, Jan Valtin, Whittaker Chambers, Darkness at Noon, Democracy, and Princeton University

...do it if Lincecum insisted, but he's assuming that Lincecum knows his value, or at least knows people who know it and would prevent any Bolshevik notions like a hometown discount. So the greater likelihood is that the Giants will come in...

In this article: Brian Sabean, Tim Lincecum, Ryan Howard, Cy Young, and Phillies

...(5) 24 Autonomous community of N.W. Spain whose capital is Oviedo (8) 25 Russian secret police that was set up in 1917 by the Bolshevik government (5) DOWN 2 Sarah ---, character in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit noted...

In this article: Potato, Slaughter of the Innocents, KLM Open, Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Britten, and Elizabeth II

...leftist lawyers and media circus. Who do you think will be on trial - terrorists or the USA? The parallels between this regime and the Bolsheviks of Vladimir Lenin and his comrades are striking. The communists of that day couldn't have...

In this article: Barack Obama, Bolsheviks, White House, U.S., Malfeasance, Ideology, Tax, Unemployment, and Global warming

...the Church. The star from the Christmas tree was replaced with a sun in case it could be interpreted as a Star of David, or if red, as a Bolshevik symbol. The name for the Christmas tree, Christbaum, was usurped in the press by fir tree, light...

In this article: Cologne and Heinrich Himmler

...that the steppe wind blew through. He told me that they had been monasteries until 1924, when they were emptied out by order of the Bolsheviks. By 1935, those buildings were officially part of the gulag. Between Stalin's death in 1953...

In this article: Ivan the Terrible, Russia, St. Basil's Cathedral, Bolsheviks, Insulin, Sergei Eisenstein, and Dmitry Medvedev

...native Pamela Peak relates the saga of the Polar Bears, chosen in 1918 to join British and Canadian soldiers in fighting the Bolsheviks. The two-hour film will air Monday night at 10 p.m. on WCMU Public Television, and at 9 p.m. on...

In this article: Michigan, Polar bear, Carl Levin, Bolsheviks, Woodrow Wilson, Detroit, and Arthur Vandenberg

...arms depot, the Ulyanovsk branch of Russia's FSB security service said in a statement. Ulyanovsk is best known as the birthplace of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. Explosions at military arms depots are relatively common in Russia and...

In this article: Ulyanovsk, Moscow, Russia, Vladimir Lenin, and Kazakhstan

...police warned residents to acquire supplies of gauze masks and store drinking water. Ulyanovsk is best known as the birthplace of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This story is sourced direct from an overseas news agency as an...

In this article: Ulyanovsk, Moscow, Vladimir Lenin, and Russia

...me how to make thread. The peasant showed me his shirt, which was home-made and some fine sacking which had been home-made. "But the Bolsheviks won't take it. They want the factory to make everything. " Diary entry in Kharkov, March 1933:...

In this article: Bread, Potato, Chicken, Cattle, Bolsheviks, Ukraine, and Kharkov