who whom
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who whom
- (politics) Who will defeat or dominate whom? A Bolshevist principle or slogan, urging action against the capitalists.
- 1971, Erik P. Hoffmann, Frederic J. Fleron, The Conduct of Soviet Foreign Policy (page 186)
- He noted various indications that a somewhat more moderate view had emerged of the basic "who-whom" problem that Lenin had so starkly formulated […]
- 1984, Max Hayward, Patricia Blake, Writers in Russia, 1917-1978 (page 58)
- The Bolsheviks may have held the commanding political heights, but in social terms the daunting question of "who — whom?" — as Lenin had put it — was still conspicuously unresolved.
- 1971, Erik P. Hoffmann, Frederic J. Fleron, The Conduct of Soviet Foreign Policy (page 186)