Word: bolshevistic
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...this to celebrate the achievement of ten years of Bolshevist rule...
...neen) migrated to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) at the age of 14 to work in a cartridge factory. There he became interested in revolutionary intrigue; imprisonment, banishment repeated themselves, as in the case of most of the revolutionists. Liberated in 1917, he took an active part in the Bolshevist revolution and in 1921 was elected to his present post. He is a small, wiry, typical Russian peasant, with all the peasant's limitations; yet, because of these shortcomings, he has proved invaluable to the Bolshevist cause by the restraint he has helped to impose upon the fiery...
GEORG TCHITCHERIN (cheat-cher-'een), 55, is Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Onetime aristocrat and diplomat, he threw up his appointment in Berlin in 1905, associated himself with the Socialist movement, was banished from Germany in 1908, since when he has remained an ardent Bolshevist. During the War he was imprisoned in England whence he was expelled in 1917. returning to Russia in January, 1918. As Foreign Commissioner he has been noted for his suave touch and clever diplomacy in the conduct of the foreign affairs...
...LEON) DAVIDOVITCH TROTSKY, 50, a Jew, from early manhood until the revolution braved the perils and vicissitudes that beset all revolutionaries, although he did not join the Communist Party until 1917. Undoubtedly the most brilliant man in Bolshevist circles, even more brilliant, say many, than was Lenin, he is today shorn of power and has been completely excommunicated from the party. Yet, he is not a nonentity; for he is the leader of the opposition and he is uncompromisingly outspoken in his criticism of Stalinism...
After all, Trotsky's contributions to the success of the Bolshevist experiment, insofar as it may be called a success, are considerable-just how considerable it would be difficult precisely to determine...