Word: bolsheviki
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...bean geste, Grand Duke Cyril's attitude is distinctly amusing; as a serious movement, it seems wholly devoid of sense. Meanwhile, it must be a source of laughing satisfaction to the Bolsheviki to know that the ranks of the Royalist Russians are so hopelessly split...
...money," scion of one of Hungary's most ancient and famous families, the man who early in 1918 took the oath of allegiance to Emperor Karl and later, in the same year, proclaimed Hungary a republic with himself as first President, who, allegedly, "sold" the country to the Bolsheviki in 1919 and who is probably the most hated man in Hungary, once more entered the legal lists to recover his confiscated property...
...return of the Russian fleet* which took refuge at Tunis after the route of General Wrangel's army in November, 1920. It even went so far as to appoint a commission to visit the fleet. The French Government found itself in a dilemma. Having recognized the Bolsheviki, could it refuse to surrender the fleet? Apparently not. But if it did surrender the fleet, Rumania and other Black Sea neighbors of Russia would be visibly annoyed, and Rumania is a close ally of France. What was to be done, therefore, occupied the minds of responsible authorities at Paris...
...revolution has not met with its expected response in Western countries, it has succeeded in Russia and is a living example to all the workers of the World of what can be accomplished by unity of the proletariat. The Bolsheviki do not lack humanitarian feelings, but the methods they employed in the revolution, such as the Red Terror, were absolutely necessary...
...government of Russia was seized by the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd (now Leningrad) Soviet on Oct. 25, 1917. Last year, the Bolsheviki replaced the Julian Calendar with the Gregorian and the Bolshevik Bastille Day or Fourth of July was celebrated...