Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will, in the long run, bring about that back-swing of the pendulum which came in the French revolution with the fall of the Jacobins, and which has come in all revolutions when the first period of disorder has calmed down. Furthermore, the main cause of Bolshevism is economic distress, and the lifting of the blockade will remove that cause. A people which does not lack the essentials of life tends toward conservation. In the second place, the new policy will remove the most effective tool which the Red leaders have used to prevent a general uprising against their regime...