tendentious
a combination of misunderstanding of the Pravda edits and rather tendentious retellings
a combination of misunderstanding of the Pravda edits and rather tendentious retellings
They also mitigated Lenin’s typically splenetic denunciation of various enemies, including among liberals, the right, and non-Bolshevik socialists
on Pravda's editors
There have been decades of debate about the aetiology of Stalinism, volumes of stories about the man’s brutality and that of his regime. They cast shadows backwards from what would come
Kerensky’s status as ‘minister-cum-democrat’, straddling government and Soviet, was more than mere addition, more even than synthesis. It was apotheosis.
Sometimes political confrontation was obviated in a short-lived post-revolutionary burst of class camaraderie