Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, last week, from the platform of a hall into which had jammed 5,000 men, women and children, all members or hangers-on of the Workers' (Communist) Party. This group of U. S. Reds looks for leadership to the dictator of Soviet Russia, silent, ruthless Josef Stalin; and consequently hates and fears famed Leon Trotsky, whom Stalin has booted out of Russia despite the fact that Trotsky was one of the first and greatest leaders of the Soviet Revolution, the friend of Lenin and the creator of the Soviet army. Of all the leaders of Communism, Leon Trotsky...
Describing his recent ejection from Russia, Leon Trotsky (real name Lev Davidovich Bronstein) declared that agents of Dictator Stalin appeared suddenly at Trotsky's place of exile, Almaata, on the borders of Russian Turkestan, and informed him that he, his son and Mme. Trotsky must pack up their possessions and prepare to leave Russia. Soon all were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them...
...TROTSKY still, in Russia, that at his mere request another special train chuffed down from Moscow to meet the first, bearing two of his relatives for a family reunion. All along Comrade Trotsky had told the dictator's agents that he "refused"' to leave Russia at Stalin's "illegal" order, and seemingly the agents were so perturbed by this that they stopped the Trotsky special train for 12 days amid open fields to query Moscow for further orders. Every day the engine would chuff to a neighboring village and return with food, mostly canned. Amid this interlude...
Last week it was said that Exile Trotsky had contracted pneumonia, summoned a specialist from Berlin. In describing how Stalin was able to seize supreme power, Trotsky declares that, during Lenin's last and protracted illnesses, the present dictator organized a veritable camarilla of self-seekers who conspired secretly against Trotsky (Lenin's logical successor) and took advantage of the fact that Trotsky himself was often ill to foment against him an opposition so strong that when Lenin died Oppositionist Stalin was able gradually to oust Trotskyists from their posts and finally to seize the government...
Acceptance of this hard condition would mark the longest step toward peace in Eastern Europe taken in a decade. When Comrade Litvinov had carefully scanned the Rumanian proposal and discussed it with Red Dictator Josef Stalin, he .acted with characteristic hypocrisy, and soon Rumania's new Foreign Minister, M. Nicholas Mironescu, declared...