Word: transcaucasian
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...this was at the time when the transCaucasian "activists" were first forming themselves. "Their members belonged to small nations from all over Caucasia, mostly wild illiterates, nomads, warriors who could remember the days of the holy Imam Schamil...
...real Marxists in Russia used to frighten their opponents by mentioning the transCaucasian activists. Soon Stalin, the 'unconsecrated,' became leader of the activists...
...orphans sheltered there nor their occidental nurses, matrons, doctors suffered a single casualty. Some idea of the material damage and loss of life in the quake area was to be gleaned from the fact that the equivalent of half a million dollars was appropriated by the various Transcaucasian Socialist Soviet Republics for Red Cross and general relief work...
...Russians over whom Joseph Stalin has reared himself a despot. M. Stalin ("Mr. Steel") exerts, simply as Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic name of Stalin, installed him in the office which he has made the focus of all Russia, the Secretariat...
Geographers noted that what was once the Empire of the Romanovs and what is now the U. S. S. R. are indeed two quite different areas. In the West the Baltic countries from Poland to Finland have split off; in the Near East the Transcaucasian Federation of Soviet Republics (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan) have been created and linked with the other Socialist Soviet Republics which signed the treaty of union at Moscow...