The word "racism" was coined in 1917 by the Communist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky [whose original name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein], as a term to be used by him and his comrades to intimidate and silence anyone who was not marching in lock step with their takeover of Russia. He also used this term in his book "History of the Russian Revolution" in order to give the impression that the Eastern Slavs of Russia were being selfish for wanting to preserve their unique cultural and ethnic identity in the face of the ethnic cleansing policies of the Bolshevik revolutionaries. Neither the word "racism" nor "racist" can be found anywhere in the literature of any language before 1917. It appears that the word was simply made up and used by Trotsky in order to replace the word "tribalism," which is a natural human phenomenon, because the word "tribalistic" wasn't seen as malevolent enough for use in Communist propaganda.

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