Word: bolshevistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow. Included in the collection are some extremely rare and learned works, such as the reports of the Russian Archeographical and Archeological Commission, and these will be valuable to advanced students in the University. Books of a lighter vein, some illustrated by Russian artists of the new school; Bolshevist periodicals, many of literary and scholarly merit; and scientific tracts, are numbered in the list of works. The report of the Russian Academy of Science deserves mention as one of the most valuable of the sets...
...University of Kazan has presented 100 volumes on scholarly subjects, entirely in Russian. Such material is difficult to procure now, for the Bolshevist government has requisitioned all that it could find of the older writings which are of the most value to the scholar. These books date back to the time of Napoleon...
...little hope for any immediate economical reconstruction. Then, too, there is the question of the communistic confiscation of property--one of the most difficult problems that the Genoa conference is now facing. It is beyond reason to expect American shippers to reestablish trade relations with Russia with the Bolshevist blockade still in operation. Russia has nothing to offer, her credit is no good, and the risk incurred by the shipper is too great...
...institutions of our country are at the present moment most seriously menaced, not by the Bolshevist or Socialist, but by men and women consciously or unconsciously trying to foist on this country the ideals of the old German Empire, to impose on us a system of regulation, interference and censorship in the place of our old scheme of individual liberty. They would regulate the life of the poor man for what they believe to be his good; they would censor his amusements and his reading of the State, but they do not realize that in doing this they are putting...
...Bryn Mawr suggestion leaves us not altogether comfortable. When we recollect an incident of two years ago, in which a little group of willful Freshmen broke up a Bolshevist meeting in Roxbury; when we think of the audiences--or the absence of audiences--at certain voluntary addresses on modern problems, or remember the difficulties that the Liberal Club has met with in getting recognition among undergraduates perhaps we are not as open minded as we like to believe. It is only by thoughtful consideration of each new movement as it arises, that we can ward off such charges as those...