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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
who whom en · X
Meanings
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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: