Background
Voslenskii, Mikhail was born in 1920 in Berdiansk.
Voslenskii, Mikhail was born in 1920 in Berdiansk.
Graduated from Moscow University.
In 1946, acted as a translator at the Nuremberg war trials. Professor at Moscow Lumumba University for students from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Member of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Defected to the West, 1972. His book Nomenklatura: Gospodstvuiu-shchii К lass Sovetskogo Soiuza, London, 1984, has been translated into several languages. Expert on Kremlin politics.
Vostorgov, Ioann, priest
1872-1823.8.1918.
Russian Orthodox clergyman.
Widely known as a writer on religious subjects and as a preacher. Lived in Tiflis, later in Moscow. Priest of the church of St. Basil at the Red Square during the 1917 Revolution.
Murdered during revolutionary anarchy.
Major religious moral codes dehumanise individuals outside their group as less worthy. Results can vary from discrimination to genocide.
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.