Word: vissarionovitch
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...most brilliant publicist of the third international (bureau for world Communist propaganda); 3) Lev Borisovitch Kemenev, onetime holder of numerous offices approximating "cabinet rank" in the Soviet Government. That these men - and Zinoviev and Trotsky - have had their careers blasted by the present Dictator of Soviet Russia, JOSEF VISSARIONOVITCH STALIN, is an astounding circumstance which demands explanation. Trotsky, it must be remembered, organized and successfully commanded the "Red Army." Without him the Soviet Regime would have been swept away at its creation. He deserves well of any Russian Communist for much the same reasons that General George Washington deserves well...
...JOSEF VISSARIONOVITCH STALIN, 48, virtual dictator of the Soviet Union, is the General Secretary of the Polit-bureau (Political Bureau) of the Communist Party, in which the supreme power of the party is vested. Like his comrades, M. Stalin (Starleen) suffered imprisonment and banishment for his revolutionary activities. He is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness...
...continuous outspoken opposition to the ruling oligarchy, headed by Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Third (Communist) International last week deposed Lev (Leon) Davidovitch Trotzky and his aide one Vuyovitch...
...Army and one-time chief defender of the Communist Fatherland, was assumedly being read out of the party councils-and with him Comrade Gregory Zinoviev, zealous apostle of "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." The struggle between these two fiery Opposition leaders and cold, relentless, stubborn Dictator Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin (TIME, June 13) had reached its ultimate crisis, for the Stalin controlled press was daily flaying Comrades Trotzky and Zinoviev as "traitors...
...severance of Anglo-Soviet relations by Great Britain (TIME, June 6) brought on at Moscow last week a political crisis. Dictator Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin was again openly criticized for the first time since last fall by his incessant rival, Lev Davidovitch Trotzky. Amid the excitement, Sir Robert Hodgson, Chief of the British Mission at Moscow, quietly departed for London with his staff on the Riga Express...