Word: bolshevikis
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...ideal, but German agents, who wish to stop the war and incourage a social revolution." Naturally, I made no such sweeping and unjustifiable indictment. But I did use substantially the words cited above with regard to some leaders of the most radical wing of the Russian Socialists, the Bolsheviki. This statement was based on the copious documentary evidence published by the Russian Government last July, evidence which, I think, has sufficiently opened the eyes of unprejudiced men as to the real character and the pernicious activities of many of the Bolshevik leaders. R. H. LORD...
There is no reason to see the hand of Germany in their announcement. While it is unfortunately true that the Petrograd Council is controlled by the extreme radicals or Bolsheviki the Central Executive Committee is not under foreign influence. The relations between the National Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, represented by the Central Committee with the Kerensky government have been variable and uncertain. Recently M. Kerensky has himself been termed a 'bourgeois,' but it is still favorable that these proposals represent many of the ideas of the middle as well as of the lower classes...