QUERY: "vrag naroda"

[Alexander Ushakov]

As I read somewhere (can't recall the source right now, but you can probably check Richard Pipes' The Russian Revolution and Russia under the Bolshevik Regime) it was a loan-translation of French 'enemy of the nation', a notion emerged during the French Revolution. The Bolsheviks considered themselves - especially at the early phases - followers of the Jacobins and Communards of Paris  and often used their terminology.   

HTH

Alex Ushakov

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Subject: QUERY: "vrag naroda"


> Can anyone tell me the origin of this charming phrase? Is it perhaps the
> Henrik Ibsen play of the same name?
>         Please reply off-list. Thanks,
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> D. Barton Johnson
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