Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served various terms of imprisonment amounting in all to ten years. "It was in prison that I finally became converted to the theory of Marx." He was a Social Democrat. After the Brussels Conference of 1903, when the Socialist Convention split to become known as Bolshevik* and Menshevik Parties, he joined the Mensheviki. "As soon as Menshevism began to assume the character of a tactical movement. . . I broke with the Mensheviki and remained outside both factions," he related. After Bloody Sunday, Jan. 9, 1905, he seems to have become an ardent Bolshevik and to have worked hard for the revolution...
...appointment of Ramsay MacDonald as prime minister marks the passing of power from a social and financial aristocracy to the brain and brawn workers of England. At the same time, it is a mistake to believe that a Labor government will be guilty either of illiteracy or of Bolshevik immediateness. The MacDonald cabinet contains more men of brains than any British cabinet. At least six of the 20 members are intellectuals', notably Viscount Haldane, Philip Snowden, Sir Sydney Oliver, and Sidney Webb...
...reported from Moscow that Bolshevik workmen had almost finished whitewashing the capital, i. e. giving it a coat of white paint. Said The New York Times: "The making white of the outside will not allow the Western World to condone the atrocities that have been committed behind them nor to see these whitewashed walls as other than whited sepulchres holding memories of dead men's bones...
Later, the question of pride entered the discussion. Communist Deputy Lazzari declared that the Bolshevik revolution was better and superior in every way to Mussolini's coup...
...measure against alleged plundering by expeditions of British and Norwegian fishers in the Baltic and of Japanese in the Pacific, M. Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik War Lord, requested the Central Executive Committee to create with all possible despatch "a real fighting Navy, efficient even if small...