Word: spiritless
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...obstreperously brilliant newcomer named Lev Bronstein, who signed his fiery pamphlets with the name Trotsky. Lenin fought ruthlessly for control. He denounced his opponents as not Social Democrats but "Social Chauvinists," as "puerile," as "windbags"; after he lost a vote, he would accuse the winners of spiritless "parliamentarianism." When the Russian workers rose up in the largely spontaneous revolt of 1905, it was Trotsky, still only 25, who headed St. Petersburg's first soviet of workers and temporarily seized power in its name; when the Czar's soldiers crushed the revolt, Trotsky was sent to Siberia (he soon escaped...