[Ads-l] Antedating of "Communism" (Soviet)

[Shapiro, Fred]

communism (OED, 2.b., 1918 [19 May])

1918 Times (London) 19 Mar. 6/3 (Newspapers.com)

British residents here are ... accounted the greatest capitalists and therefore the worst enemies of Bolshevist communism.

Fred Shapiro





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