Word: bolsheviks
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Declaring that the chances for either Communism or Fascism in this country and England are negligible, Kerensky traced the reasons why the attempt of his government to establish democracy on Russian soil came to nothing after only eight months. "The essential cause of the Bolshevik victory in Russia," he said, "was the very difficult war in which we were engaged and the fact that the Revolution began during the war--not before, as in the French Revolution...
During the War Estonians overthrew a native Bolshevik regime which had held their capital for five weeks. Next they fought off the Germans, who undertook to "police" Estonia after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Finally they faced an invasion of the Russian Reds. From a prison camp, into which the Germans had flung him, emerged one Konstantin Pats, just in time to help lead Estonian forces which drove off the Red Army invaders. Last week, determined Konstantin Pats, now Acting President of the Republic, celebrated at Tallinn Estonia's 20th birthday...
Mamil Dmitrievich Orakhelashvili, an Old Georgian Bolshevik and Stalin intimate, onetime Vice Commissar for Education...
...Metelev, unidentified by correspondents but reputedly an Old Bolshevik...
...Ludwig, Stefan Zweig, Ignazio Silone. Mme Schwimmer fled her native Hungary in 1920 after political upheavals which ousted her from the national cabinet, was denied U. S. citizenship by the Supreme Court in 1929. A tireless, homeless agitator, she has been freely circularized by her enemies as "German spy, Bolshevik agent and swindler of Henry Ford," by her friends as "the world's most powerful woman." Last week in Manhattan, after acknowledging her award with a speech proposing a World Federation of Nations, she lamented that the prize money would cancel only her "most pressing" debts...