Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches reported that such noted feminist Communists as the widow of Nikolai Lenin have instituted a movement for the purpose of discouraging kissing as a form of greeting between Russian males...
...ruthless Soviet commander, exterminator of many Tsarists, sometime assistant and since last January successor to Leon Trotzky in the post of Soviet War Commissar (Minister); at Moscow, after two operations for intestinal ulcer. The Soviet Government gave a funeral "second in size and impressiveness only to that of Nikolai Lenin...
...conclusion, Sir Travers read extracts from a book called Lenin and Youth, which he declared had been "recommended by the defendants to young Britons"; and positively asserted that the Communists before the court had received orders in the past from Moscow. The session was then adjourned pending the opening of the formal trial proceedings, and the twelve defendants trooped forth and were promptly hailed as heroes and crusaders by their flag-waving sympathizers. With them walked famed and unique Communist M. P. Shapurji Saklatvala, whom Secretary Kellogg recently barred from the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 28 CABINET). Shapurji had previously...
...star of Trotzky was again waxing portentously. He returned to Moscow, and has labored unceasingly for the economic aggrandizement of the Soviets* ever since. At present he is thought to be on exceedingly good terms with the Communist leaders, and can count on the powerful influence of Lenin's widow. Hence it is generally believed that Trotzky is now seeking the little Caucasus resort of Kislovodsk "for his health" in good earnest. He is reported to seem weary and to be aging rapidly- he who created the Red Army with the tireless fury of a demon...
...late M. Semashko, Soviet Commissar of Health, has been troubled by the thought that Lenin is dead, Trotzky is greying and the Soviets are not producing new brain power at an overwhelming rate. Seeking a remedy for this state of affairs he was last week reported to have visited Dr. Serge Voronoff, French gland specialist, and to have "assisted at a successful rejuvenation operation performed upon Klara Zetkin," 68, famed "Grandmother of German Communism" and member of the German Reichstag...