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Word: mensheviks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist, being called a Trotskyite or Menshevik is not the ludicrous doubletalk which it is to American ears; it is a great deal more serious than an American being accused of embezzling or Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Best Years of Our Lives | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Moscow. In 1939, he was abruptly appointed head of the American section of the Russian Foreign Office, thence was sent into the thick of high & low diplomacy, as counselor at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. These were dangerous times, and Molotov. decided finally to keep the old-line, ex-Menshevik diplomats (Maisky, Troyanovsky Sr., Surits et al.) from further advancement, push a younger and more reliable set to the fore. Thus, in 1943, succeeding Western-minded Maxim Litvinoff, Gromyko walked into the Oval Room of the White House and presented his ambassadorial credentials to Franklin Roosevelt. Gromyko was then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Negative Neanderthaler | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Professor Karpovich served during the March, 1917, revolution in Russia under the Menshevik regime before the more radical Bolsheviks took control in the November revolution. Professor McKay, in coordination with Sumner Welles '14, has arranged for the publication of a number of books on international politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speakers Will Discuss UNO-fication Tonight | 2/19/1946 | See Source »

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