Impotence	Being powerless
Unscrupulous	Being untrustworthy
Culmination	Ending
Coup d'etat	Revolution, usually carried out by force
Conviction	belief
Capitalist	Economic system based on a free trading market rather than an economy controlled by the state
Avert	Avoid
Reconstruction	Rebuilding
Ideological	Based on ideas (ie Communism)
Subservient	Under the control of
Infiltration	Sneaking in
Object	Aim
Commonwealth	Former British Empire countries, usually friendly to Britain
Inclination	Tendency
Colossal	Huge
Yoke	Burden
Aspirations	hopes
Counterblast	Reaction
Ostensibly	Apparently
Interventionist	One of the groups which intervened against the Communists in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21
Reactionary	Opposed to the revolution, usually meaning opposed to Communism
Red herring	Pointless distraction
Encirclement	surrounding