Word: fomenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be that of an official Soviet personage or even a comrade known to be intimate with Stalin. Reason: nearly every country which has recognized the Stalin regime has exacted formal treaty pledges-as did President Roosevelt-that Soviet diplomats, consuls and such will not in practice work to foment the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" to which every Communist is pledged in theory. Mr. Roosevelt went even further, exacting from Comrade Stalin a pledge not to have on Russian soil any organization or persons engaged in attempting to overthrow the U. S. Government, including even U. S. citizens...
...turbulent. pro-Stalin Mexico. If he is Stalin's stooge, he will be safe in Mexico and that was TIME'S point. So far as World Revolution is concerned the position of Joseph Stalin is that his left hand constantly assists the Comintern led by Dimitroff to foment World Revolution, while his right assists the Soviet diplomacy of Litvinoff to maintain nominally friendly relations with Capitalist countries. Everyone knows that Stalin and Trotsky profess to be each other's worst enemies, but notably in Spain the disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival...
...criticism of the new Constitution. It is a document in which many of the original world revolutionary principles of Lenin & Trotsky are toned down to dovetail into Stalin's practical scheme of encouraging Communist parties to unite with Socialist and other parties throughout the world. Reds thus may foment revolutions and capture administrations from within against which, as pure Communists, they could only have struggled from without but inevitably they themselves will become somewhat watered down and followers of Trotsky are loud in proclaiming that with this Constitution the toiling masses are being duped and betrayed by Stalin...
Since the Comintern at Moscow has long been doing its best to foment what Communists call "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat," most Russians have found it easy to believe Soviet news stories that all non-Communist governments are leagued and conspiring against Moscow. The Russian peasant or proletarian reasons that any Capitalist states which have not teamed up against their avowed enemy, the Comintern, must be managed by simpletons, and that therefore Soviet propagandists must be right in endlessly repeating that the Capitalist states have so teamed up. Last week this Soviet journalistic axiom cracked. When...
Leon Trotsky lives exiled near Oslo, Norway. Lenin and Trotsky were the chief builders of the Soviet State, control of which after Lenin's death was seized from Trotsky by Stalin. Their epic quarrel: Trotsky insisted Russia must foment Communist revolutions abroad in order to survive as a Soviet country; Stalin favored husbanding Russian energies at home until the U. S. S. R. had enough surplus strength to promote "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...