Word: czardom
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Since he became the dominant member of Memphis' censor board, Hollywood has quietly fumed at his autocratic czardom. Last week, David Loew, producer of The Southerner, mobilized for a court fight. Cried he: "Binford must have been sniffing too many magnolias...
...When Czardom went to the wolves in the early spring of 1917, and Kerensky tiptoed onto the stage, Kollontay and her friends streamed back to Petrograd. Kerensky had her arrested, later released her. Now she was ready for Bolshevism and the November Revolution. She was made the first People's Commissar for Social Welfare. Then the "Red Rose of the Recolution" fell in love with a huge, illiterate, black-bearded sailor named Dybenko, who had led the revolt of the Baltic Fleet. In the midst of revolutionary history, the two made a counterrevolution of their own, went...
...universally accepted principle of government. Was William Lloyd Garrison considered a liberal or something else in his day? But slavery is now long since abolished. Were the Social-Democrats of Russia considered liberals or something else in the days of '05? But who broke the back of Czardom...
...might yet intervene if we could form some decision, and save the fruits of the revolution that abolished Czardom. But as it is we leave Russia to be the prey of whatever new form of tyranny can prevail there while her most respectable elements are becoming estranged from us and Japan offers the only visible...
...even believe as the most of us do, however, that the true remedy for Russian ills must extend to the social make-up, according to the new light of Louis Blanc and Lassalle. But he unites with us in the struggle for the abolition of Czardom. Between despotism and liberty, he chooses for liberty...