Word: bolsheviki
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...Cross Mission during Kerensky's term of office, deeply influenced by Major Raymond Robins, he understood the meaning of revolutionary developments that baffled and outraged Allied diplomats, generals and political experts. A natural democrat, he tried to strengthen Kerensky's government. To forestall the Bolsheviki, he made available for famed oldtime anti-Tsarist martyrs, a million dollars of his personal fortune. The money was to be used for propaganda among the soldiers, urging them to continue the War on the grounds that German victory would mean a return of the monarchy. Thompson demanded that the U. S. Government...
Kerensky was willing, but die-hard Allied ambassadors refused. After the Bolsheviki seized power, Thompson, who preferred them to dictatorial counter-revolutionists, urged that they be recognized and persuaded to carry on the War. Rebuffed on all sides, the disillusioned millionaire returned to Wall Street, where he stunned his colleagues by speaking warmly of the Soviets in the midst of a Red scare, declared wistfully that as a capitalist he could get along better with plain workmen than with politicians & lawyers. His unique position was not understood. He became known inaccurately as the man who had given a million dollars...
...POWER. As Red Army divisions, marching 50 men abreast, sweep across Moscow's vast Red Square, leaders of the Party and the State watch from a parapet of Nikolai Lenin's glistening black and red granite tomb. When President Roosevelt made overtures last week to the Bolsheviki (a Russian word meaning "majority") he did not write to that swart Asiatic Russian, alert Josef Stalin (see S above) because the Dictator is not head of the State, but Secretary or Leader of the Communist Party, the only party permitted to exist in Russia. Instead President Roosevelt addressed scrubby-bearded...
Interchangeable Bolsheviki...
Bolshe in Russian means "larger." The Bolsheviki were at first merely the larger group or majority of the Russian Social-Democrat Party which split up in 1903 into the Bolsheviki, led by Lenin and the Mensheviki (minority). In 1918 the Bolshevik Party adopted the name Communist Party, of which Josef Stalin is now Secretary and as such Dictator of Russia...