Word: bolshevist
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...week long, not only in Russia but in many countries throughout the world, the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Bolshevist regime was celebrated...
Summoned before that august Bolshevist body, the former potent War Minister accused M. Stalin and Nikolai Bucharin, editor of the Pravda (official Moscow newspaper), of placing the question of their survival above all principle. He called them usurpers, Bonapartist dictators, without authority from the masses...
...Provisional Government of Russia. demanded his release. He entered Russia a few weeks later at about the same time as Lenin, with whom he worked in preparation for the famed November revolution that set the seal of Bolshevism over all the Russias. His part in preparing for the Bolshevist revolution is admittedly hardly less than that of Lenin himself, and he is regarded by some as the greater organizing genius...
When the first Bolshevist government was formed in November, 1917, M. Trotzky became the first Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he represented Russia at the Brest-Litovsk peace conference with Germany. He at first refused the German terms, but the continued advance of German troops into the heart of Russia eventually forced the Bolsheviki to sign far worse terms of peace. M. Trotzky agreed to the necessity of ending hostilities, and handed over his portfolio of Foreign Affairs to become Commissar of War, in which capacity he organized the Red Army...
...split occurred soon after General Chiang Kai-Shek captured Shanghai. An attempt was made to wrest power from the victorious general who evaded the move by setting up an independent regime at Nan king and denouncing the government at Hankow as bolshevist...