His pride in his rare book and photograph collections - a legacy from his father, a committed Communist who was a Soviet diplomat in China - is overwhelming.

In private conversations, committed Communists say the party needs to find "a decent way" to surrender or share power as soon as possible.

Whether the Rosenbergs, as committed Communists, hoped it would prove valuable seems to many people less unlikely.

The real fantasists were the committed Communists dreaming of a workers' paradise, and their vision appealed to the artist in Mr. Zaitsev.

Her father, Yuri Larin, was a committed Communist who met and befriended Bukharin in Italy around 1914, shortly before her birth.

Bush had been friends with Clark for some years; he was also left-leaning but not a committed Communist like Bush.

While Gillespie sees with a novelist's detached observation, In s is a committed Communist who rejects the very idea of impartiality.

In the case of the East German school principals, nearly all have been dismissed because they were the most committed Communists in the system, say the West German education authorities.

Her gushing over her wealthy customer was obsequious enough to turn die-hard Republicans into committed Communists.

Between 1948 and 1960 there were decisive changes in the film-making methods and manners of Visconti, an aristocrat by birth and, by choice, a committed Communist who loftily opposed the party.