Word: menshevik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolsheviks hissed when speakers were soft on America, but the predominant noise-making of the crowd was wholesome Menshevik applause. The biggest laugh of the evening greeted the remark that "Tanzania has invited Israel to set up their hotel system...
...circulation (24,000) for the liberal, anti-Communist magazine of which he was heart, soul and executive editor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Ukraine-born "Sol" Levitas came to the U.S. at 20, returned to Russia when the Revolution began in 1917, served briefly as the Menshevik vice mayor of Vladivostok, but tangled with the Bolsheviks and spent several years in their jails. Making his way back to the U.S. in 1923, he mostly lectured through the Roaring Twenties, in 1930 took over the New Leader, then the official mouthpiece of the U.S. Socialist Party. He turned it into...