OED online:
1. A Russian vehicle drawn by three horses abreast.
1842 tr. Kohl's Russia xxv. 202 One of his [Orlowsky's] best, and best-known
pictures is his
Courier. A Russian troika is carried on at full speed by three wild horses.
1904 Daily Record &
Mail 22 Apr. 4, I crossed the Baikal in a troika, a basket sleigh on wooden
runners, drawn by
three horses abreast.
2. a three-person commission or administrative council. Also attrib.
1945 [see N.K.V.D. s.v. N II. 1]. 1954 C. P. SNOW New Men xl. 286 Faith, hope,
and hate: that was
the troika which rushed him on. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 682/1 The
so-called troika, or
commission of three, which authorized summary executions. 1961 Guardian 6 June
1/2 Experience of
the United Nations action in the Congo..had convinced the Soviet Government of
the need for the
troika principle to be applied to all international action. 1961 New Statesman
9 June 901/2
Krushchev's central doctrine of the Troika, the principle of
triple-harnessCommunist, western
and uncommittedin the administrative, as well as in the policy-making, organs
of the UN. 1969 A.
ARENT Laying on of Hands (1971) ix. 91 The landed gentry. Part of the troika
who, with the army
and the Church, run Spain. 1971 Nature 26 Feb. 585/1 Every chemistry
department, after all, is now
at least a troika of inorganic, physical and organic chemistry. 1974 T. P.
WHITNEY tr.
Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. I. vii. 281 Real scope entered the picture
with the twenties,
when permanently operating Troikaspanels of three, operating behind closed
doorswere created to
bypass the courts permanently. 1976 Church Times 23 Jan. 9/1 The editorship is
now a troika
consisting of David Jenkins, John Drury and James Mark. 1976 M. J. LASKY Utopia
& Revolution
(1977) ii. 92 Ideas, images, and ideology never quite manage to be harnessed
into a controllable
troika.
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