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who whom

who whom phrase: who will defeat or dominate whom? A Bolshevist principle or slogan, urging action against the capitalists.

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who whom

  1. Who 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 186
    • 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

Questions about who whom

What does who whom mean?
Who whom means who will defeat or dominate whom? A Bolshevist principle or slogan, urging action against the capitalists.
What part of speech is who whom?
Who whom is a phrase.

Words near who whom in the dictionary

  1. who so
  2. who took the jam out of your doughnut
  3. who wants to know
  4. who was your servant last year
  5. who watches the watchers
  6. who whom
  7. who would have guessed
  8. who would have known
  9. who would have thought it
  10. who would have thunk it
  11. who would've thunk it

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