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defensist Russian Hist.|dɪˈfɛnsɪst|
[f. defence, defense n. + -ist.]
One who, towards the end of the war of 1914–18, advocated the continuation of the war by Russia against Germany rather than the conclusion of a separate peace. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence deˈfensism.
1920E. Antonelli Bolshevist Russia i. ii. 57 The sophistry of the self-styled ‘liberal defensists’. Ibid., Defensist in contradistinction to defeatist, meaning one who advocated continuing the war against Germany for the defence of Russia. 1932M. Eastman tr. Trotsky's Hist. Russian Rev. I. xv. 303 ‘Our slogan..is pressure upon the Provisional Government..to induce all the warring countries to open immediate negotiations..and until then every man remains at his fighting post!’ Both the idea and its formulation are those of the defensists. 1949I. Deutscher Stalin v. 131 The patriotic attitude or the ‘defensism’ of the Mensheviks. Ibid. 133 Stalin welcomed the semi-pacifist and semi-defensist Manifesto..The argument{ddd}implied that the defensists, Menshevik or even Liberal, acted in good faith. |