Meanings
phrase
- governmentWho will defeat or dominate whom? A Bolshevist principle or slogan, urging action against the capitalists.
He noted various indications that a somewhat more moderate view had emerged of the basic "who-whom" problem that Lenin had so starkly formulated […]
1971, Erik P. Hoffmann, Frederic J. Fleron, The Conduct of Soviet Foreign Policy, page 1861 more example
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.
1984, Max Hayward, Patricia Blake, Writers in Russia, 1917-1978, page 58
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