Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manifesto continues by urging "uncompromising war" against democratic principles of government, "which only serves to keep the proletariat in chains, while a Bolshevik dictatorship over the proletariat will set the people free...
...after he, in his turn, had cast out the Romanovs: "I approve recent wholesale de jure recognition of Soviet Russia. All democratic states, even though disagreeing with Russian Communism, will be well advised to have authorized representatives at Moscow to protect their interests, if these should be violated by Bolshevik principles...
This fact makes Bolshevik continuation in power doubtful. "Russia is not represented by the Bolshevik party," he said, "it is ruled by it. Six years of that rule in the length of history is too short a time to settle its permanence. The oppression of all fundamental rights is yet in Russia...
...years or by those who are able to penetrate the Russian psychology. Here the best interpreter is a Russian who in blood belongs to the great Slavonic race." He further declared that, for Americans, the best approach to a better understanding of the question is merely to picture the Bolshevik party in power in America, a solution, he said, which would be no less unpleasant here than it is in Russia...
...Sommaripa looks forward to a change in Russian affairs. "The propaganda of the Third Internationale in Russia," he concluded, "has led to the growth of national feeling. The death of Lenine is irreparable for the Bolshevik party. They are already split, and it may take two or three years more for their downfall. Then the representatives of the Russian people will enter into power to decide upon the form of government, and the next dictator of Russia will be freedom...