All 8 Uses of
proletariat
in
Doctor Zhivago
- The paper was a late extra printed on one side only; it gave the official announcement from Petersburg that a Soviet of People's Commissars had been formed and that Soviet power and the dictatorship of the proletariat were established in Russia.†
Chpt 2.6
- His origin is even more proletarian than mine.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- Now it had come, surpassing his wildest dreams, but he, the born and faithful champion of the proletariat who had been among the first to set up a Factory Committee in the Sviatogor Bogatyr, and to hand the place over to the workers, had been left high and dry; instead of being in the thick of things, he was in a remote village from which the workers-some of whom were Mensheviks-had fled!†
Chpt 2.8
- The toiling peasantry of Siberia and the Urals must understand that only in alliance with the city proletariat and the soldiers, only in alliance with the poor Kirghiz and Buriat peasants …†
Chpt 2.10
- It is essential to work out to the last detail all questions concerning the organization of partisan detachments, their commanders, proletarian discipline, conspiratorial work, contact with the outside world, behavior toward the local population, revolutionary courts-martial, and sabotage in enemy territory-for example, the destruction of bridges, railway lines, steamships, barges, stations, workshops with all their technical equipment, telegraph offices, mines, and food supplies.†
Chpt 2.10
- Their inhumanity seemed a marvel of class-consciousness, their barbarism a model of proletarian firmness and revolutionary instinct.†
Chpt 2.11
- You thought it was: 'Come to me, all ye poor and proletarians of the world.'†
Chpt 2.12
- You thought it was: 'Come to me, all ye poor and proletarians of the world.'†
Chpt 2.12
Definition:
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(proletariat) a social class consisting of those who must work for wages to support themselves