Word: bolshevists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joffe was one of Soviet Russia's foremost diplomats and represented his country in many lands, the most notable, perhaps, being China, where he was able to prepare the way for Bolshevist influence in the civil war still raging...
Adolf Joffe was 44 years old when he died. Born in the sunny Crimea, he joined (at the age of 17) the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, the left wing of which became the present Bolshevist movement. An education in Russia being consequently denied to him, he went to Berlin and there studied medicine (1903-6), thence to Zürich to study law (1907), thence to Vienna to study law & medicine. His departure from Berlin was precipitated by the authorities who, on account of his radicalism, considered him an undesirable alien...
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...