Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lenin was a little Mongol, Zinoviev a big Jew." While Rykov was the able lieutenant of Lenin in Russia, Zinoviev was at his side in exile...
...Lord Trotzky and Karl Radek, two erstwhile powers of Communism, were dropped. This is obviously in retaliation for both Trot-ky's and Radek's criticism of the Communist Party, but it is exceedingly doubtful if the former, who is said to be popular in Russia, can be ousted from the Committee with impunity...
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...
...three-storied, wooden pyramid "40 feet high." Here soldiers stood in lines to form pathways to the pyramid. A shout was heard; then gathering force, like a mighty wind lashing itself into a tornado, the shout increased to a dull reverberant roar; along the pathways came the leader of Russia. Then deal silence. Suddenly a score or more of bands struck up the Internationale and down one of the aisles came some French Communists from the Department of the Seine to present to Peasant Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committe, one of the original flags...