Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolshevik? It might be best, some Nanking statesmen were saying at week's end, for China to team up not with Imperial Japan but with Bolshevik Russia. After all, so many Russians, including Stalin, are Asiatics and Bolsheviks have plenty of zip. Guardedly the Nanking Government spokesman said: "China has not yet been forced to decide between Japan and Russia, but some time in the future, perhaps, China must make this momentous decision...
Though shot as pro-Japanese last week, Premier Wang might just as well have been shot a few years ago as pro-Bolshevik. As recently as 1928 he was hobnobbing in Moscow. Soviet gold financed the Chinese civil war which enabled General Chiang to set up the Nanking Government with himself as Dictator (TIME, April 25, 1927). This week prompt Japanese rage at Nanking's fresh talk of Russia erupted in grim remarks by Japanese militarists that at the first real sign of a Nanking switchback toward Moscow, soldiers of the Divine Emperor will drive a Japanese wedge...
Since it is Bolshevik dogma that only the decadent bourgeois are curious about statesmen's private lives, since Soviet leaders usually see in print only their last names with no personal details whatsoever, astonishment was the reaction of most Russians last week to the Pravda & Izvestia story headed...
...second of these stages that Russia now finds herself, Hopper explained. "Today," he declared, "the Soviet State is still the organ of the Bolshevik proletarian and enjoys a certain degree of democracy." He added that the proletarian state "shows not the slightest sign of withering away...
With Russian newsorgans clamoring for "Stakhanovism" in all branches of Bolshevik endeavor last week, Stakhanov and his chief assistant were each given a Soviet automobile, feted as heroes...