Word: bolshevists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...
...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...