Word: bolsheviki
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...Wider things will be accomplished, Senate or no Senate, Congress or no Congress, Legislatures or no Legislatures, Pacifists or no Pacifists, Bolsheviki or no Bolsheviki. I retire from active life with a deep faith that the American people are growing every year to greater competency...
Most people believe that it was Horthy that crushed the Bolsheviki. This is not so for when, in 1919, he entered Budapest on his white charger at the head of the 'National Army, the Bolsheviki had already fallen under the coup de grace delivered by the Rumanian Army. But, none the less, Horthy has consented to take the credit...
...retrial of onetime Captain Jacques Sadoul, who was sentenced to death in absentio in 1919 for deserting to the Bolsheviki while a member of the French Military Mission, began...
...Premier Georges Clemenceau with responsibility for the Brest-Litovsk Treaty (treaty of peace signed between Russia and Germany in 1918) and for "the death of several hundred thousands of soldiers." It was thought extremely unlikely that he could prove that Clemenceau actually did refuse military aid to the Bolsheviki, although Sadoul averred that documentary evidence existed...
...modernist? But no, I am not a modernist. That is a debauched term (mot compromisé). The modernists set out to shock the bourgeoisie, and they only succeed in pleasing the Bolsheviki. My music is neither 'futurist' nor 'passéist,' but the music of today...