Word: plekhanov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having attained a nearly unprecedented majority in the House of Representatives, the Democratic Party fell heir in January to several additional seats on the House Un-American Activities Committee. And, before HUAC Chairman Edwin E. Willis could spell Plekhanov, Congressman Charles L. Weltner of Atlanta had, without histrionics or controversy, slipped into one of them...
...rent by savage quarrels. As soon as three or more gathered together, they divided into left, center and right. The "European" wing, under the German Karl Kautsky, who was savagely denounced for seeking to "reform" Marx, eventually evolved into today's democratic socialists. The Russian wing, under George Plekhanov, a nobleman and former army officer who was the antithesis of Lenin, underwent a momentous split, mostly on the issue of just how tough, disciplined and dictatorial the movement should...