Word: czars
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Lenin and the Russian communists, however, were happy. They exploited the anger of the masses, overthrew the provisional government that had taken over from the deposed czar and imposed a regime that would repress Russia for the next 70 or so years...
Founded in 1912 by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Pravda was closed three times by Czar Nicholas, and again by Alexander Kerensky in 1917. The once proud party organ last week lamented, with fine irony, the "planned economic strangulation of free, independent media...
...this group as well. Still, Bush's incumbency, combined with the lack of a realistic alternative, will attract this support in the final analysis. Thus, while a hole for a conservative does exist, only a neoconservative, such as Housing Secretary Jack F. Kemp or former Education Secretary and Drug Czar William Bennett, could capitalize on the opportunity Bush's backsliding has created...
...that old man is still around, he has his wish. Lenin's statues have been toppled, and the elegant former imperial capital, built by Czar Peter the Great, has its historic name once more. So do dozens, if not hundreds, of towns, cities and now independent states throughout the former Soviet Union, where names that reflect the communist past have been declared non grata...
...union, local governments are returning to traditional national place names that evoke far different memories. They are dumping the old communists: the city of Andropov, for Yuri Andropov, party boss from 1982 to '84, is Rybinsk again; Sverdlovsk, for Lenin's henchman Yakov Sverdlov, who approved the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family there, has reassumed the proud title Yekaterinburg, for Peter the Great's wife, Catherine...