Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been a familiar fact to readers of Mr. Chesterton but it has never been impressed upon the average man as at present. At the end of a war fought to "make the world safe for democracy", Europe is tottering between the dictatorship of the proletariat in the person of Lenin and the dictatorship of the strong man in the persons of Mussolini and Primo Rivera, while German democracy steers a narrow course, apparently doomed to failure, between the Scylla of hungry reds and the Charybdis of angry nationalists. Meanwhile on the Turkish question and to a lesser extent...
...that the original beds are wearing thin and weedy. Still, some of the imported seed has fallen into good ground and blossomed as permanent pictures on the American mind. We no longer think of Russia in terms of Cossacks, but in terms of wooden soldiers; Balieff is mightier than Lenin; and any American will give his oath that the Moscow artists are far more impressive behind their Smith Brothers beards than any Soviet that ever shot a princess. Russian restaurants are an established industry. Every dancer on the stage is stamped with the spirit of the Steppes. For a time...
Karl Radek, "after Lenin the ablest head among the Russian Rulers," said that the German bourgeoisie has lost its second war and that it will capitulate rather than precipitate the further fall of the mark and an uprising of the proletariat...
Colonel Alexander Schwartz, ex-Tzarist officer, challenged Senator Brookhart of Iowa, recently returned from Russia, to a debate on the recognition of the " Lenin-Trotzky Government...
...When a man of the United States Senatorship calibre arrives at the Russian border he is spotted. He is not allowed to see or hear anything except that which Lenin and Trotzky would have him see and hear...