who whom

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who whom

1. (politics) Who will defeat or dominate whom? A Bolshevist principle or slogan, urging action against the capitalists.
   • 1971, Erik P. Hoffmann, Frederic J. Fleron, The Conduct of Soviet Foreign Policy, page 186:

     He noted various indications that a somewhat more moderate view had emerged of the basic "who-whom" problem that Lenin had so starkly formulated […]

   • 1984, Max Hayward, Patricia Blake, Writers in Russia, 1917-1978, page 58:

     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.