Word: czars
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...away when the Social Democratic Party was born in Minsk and then nearly destroyed. But when he emerged from Siberia in 1900, he once again joined forces with Plekhanov and vowed to start a newspaper that would organize a rebirth of the Social Democrats beyond the reach of the Czar's police. Lenin's newspaper, Iskra (Spark), appeared in Munich at the end of that year, and a second meeting of the party opened in Brussels...
...lost a vote, he would accuse the winners of spiritless "parliamentarianism." When the Russian workers rose up in the largely spontaneous revolt of 1905, it was Trotsky, still only 25, who headed St. Petersburg's first soviet of workers and temporarily seized power in its name; when the Czar's soldiers crushed the revolt, Trotsky was sent to Siberia (he soon escaped on a hijacked sleigh). Lenin remained in Geneva, planning, maneuvering. In 1912 he finally had the strength to expel all the Mensheviks from his party...
...World War I, which the exiled Lenin fervently opposed, that finally brought him to the threshold of victory. Battered by German triumphs, disheartened by bread riots and other signs of popular hostility, Czar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917 and handed over power to a provisional government headed by the conservative Prince Lvov. Lenin passionately argued that the time for revolution...
...Gorbachev accomplished last week truly is historic. Though there is still much debate about how the reforms will play out, February 1990 may go down in Soviet history as a month equal in significance to February 1917, when the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty ended with the abdication of Czar Nicholas...
...French couturier Ungaro. She promptly began pulling it apart. To the rescue of French couture -- and that evening's gala -- rode "a nice man who got down on his knees and began pinning." His name? Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurent's multimillionaire business partner and France's culture czar...