Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place chosen for this celebration was the famed Houdinka Field, near Moscow, now used as an aerodrome, where in 1894, at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, thousands of people were accidentally trampled to death as they scrambled for free food and wine. A Bolshevik, glowing with pride, said that "our organization is perfected to prevent a repetition of the disaster." An elderly woman nearby shuddered and crossed herself...
...former naked except for a pair of trunks, the latter clothed in white shirts and short blue knickers; English Communists from the Clyde, dressed in sombre Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman...
Perhaps more than any man in Russia, Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov is the mainstay of the Bolshevik regime. When Lenin was alive, Rykov was always a great power. Lenin supplied the dynamic energy, the eloquence, the courage to say: "This thing must be done." Rykov, engineer and economist, wielded a static power, the patience and knowledge which enabled him to say: "This is the way it can be done...
...plenary session of the Anglo-Russian Conference was to have been held in London during the past week, but was suddenly canceled at the request of Christian Rakovsky, Russian Charge d'Affaires in London and head of the Bolshevik delegation to the Conference...
...however, Baron Ungern von Sternberg, leader of an anti-Bolshevik force, forced the Hutuktu again to declare the independence of Outer Mongolia. In the Spring of the same year von Sternberg was defeated and executed ; Mongolia fell under the influence of the Soviet Government at Moscow, thus leaving China's position with regard to Mongolia obscure...