Word: grigorie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Commonwealth of Nations is "in for it," to use a colloquialism, if Grigori Zinoviev, fierce Bolshevik spirit, is to be believed. Said he in Moscow: "England is now the chief task of the Communist International. If we succeed in creating a mass Communist party there, half the European victory will have been achieved. We must not set too low a value on what is going on in England. We must organize a daily Communist paper and create a left flank of trades unions. We must set to work in the British colonies...
Most interest, however, attaches itself to the reappointment of Grigori Zinoviev to the Presidency of the Executive Committee. What is this Committee? What manner of man is Zinoviev? The Executive Committee of the International is, of course, the governing body of Communism. Theoretically it is separated from the Soviet Government, but actually it is the most important branch of that body, controlling foreign policy and spending Government funds. Its prime function is the propagation of Communism throughout the world-a call to the world proletariat to throw off the capitalist yoke, overthrow the existing government, proclaim a dictatorship. "Workers...
...directs this policy and possibly has more to say about it than anyone else is Ovsei Grigori Aronovitch Radomyslski, alias Grigori Zinoviev...
Opinions differ widely as to the extent of the power wielded by Grigori. Some people claim that his is "the greatest force that has ever shown itself in Communist Russia, not excepting Lenin." Others refer to him merely as "Lenin's assistant...
Undoubtedly he is a great power, perhaps the greatest power in Russia. His mind is a volcano spewing up from his revolutionary soul the cruel lava of Communism. In this he differs from Rykov (TIME, July 14), who is the conservative power functioning noiselessly. Grigori is "the bomb boy of Bolshevism," whose autocratic impetuosity has earned for him the title of "Red Emperor." Again, he is different from Trotzky, whose aggressive spirit is tempered with shrewdness and whose power is wielded less by the force of oratory than by Machiavellian methods. In Zinoviev the fire of revolution burns unextinguishably...