Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snowy day in Moscow, the Grand Duke Sergius was blown to pieces at the Kremlin gate?one Kalayev threw the bomb; but the man who engineered the plot was the arch-Terrorist, Gen. Boris Savinkov...
After reviewing his ghastly life as a Terrorist, he pleaded with outstretched hands for his life; or, if he was still impervious to his fate, his words belied...
Said Kursky: "I think he is telling the truth. And, what is more, our investigations have shown no attempt on his part to start Terrorist activities here nor to get in touch with anti-Bolshevik organizations. For one thing, there are no such organizations in existence, though he may not know that. Any way, I believe he is honest...
Five miles of ragged Russian peasants, we read, filed sorrowfully past the body of Lenin, bowing reverently before this terrorist of the new regime. The capital city itself, it is said, is to be renamed Leningrad. One feels that all this is mourning for the man, attribute to the leader rather than to his ideas or methods...
...acute insanity. . . . This insanity was by no means confined to the ranks of the so-called Revolutionists. It pervaded the Duma, the highest ranks of society, Royalty itself (not meaning the immediate family of the Tsar), all as guilty of Russia's ruin as the most blood-thirsty terrorist." Bringing her intensely religious mind to bear on the ruination of her country, she continues: "When His avenging hand has so plainly been laid upon all of the Russian peoples how dare any of us lay the calamity entirely at the doors of the Bolsheviki? We Russians look...