Word: bolshevikis
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...words Bolsheviki and Mensheviki (bolshinstvó and menshinstvó) are the Russian for majority and minority. The apparent anomaly?the Bolsheviki being an actual minority in Russia?is accounted for by the Socialist Conference of Brussels, July, 1903, from which the Bolshevik and Menshevik Parties derived their names...
General Wrangel, leader of the White Army, now residing in Yugoslavia, is reported to be preparing an offensive on the Bolsheviki. General Shatilov, his chief of staff, left...
...Soviet delegation at Lausanne were there unofficially, and were not entitled to diplomatic police protection. It is, therefore, futile for the Bolsheviki to accuse the Swiss of negligence. Conradi had a personal grievance against the Communists of Russia. His father and uncle were the victims of Bolsheviki cruelty. He therefore acted on the principle of " Vengeance is mine; I will repay! " And he did repay. There seems nothing of international importance attached to the unfortunate and regrettable death of M. Vorovsky...
...Jordania states that in one day the Bolsheviki executed 200 people, by order of the Cheka, without trial. The victims included women and children. Most of the men killed were of the educated classes...
...title of the Transcaucasian Republic. Subsequently, however, Georgia was forced to form a separate State, and on May 26, 1918, her independence was proclaimed at Tiflis (her capital). The Allied and Associated Powers gave the Georgian Republic de jure recognition in 1921. But later in the year the Bolsheviki entered on the scene, put to flight the native Government, and set up a soviet government designated as the Fraternal Soviet Republic of Georgia...