Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...review the progress of the past year the Central Executive Committee, the highest organ of the Soviet Government, met in the Uritsky Palace, Leningrad, which, as St. Petersburg and later Petrograd, was the capital of Russia under the Tsars...
...flurry was caused by the arrival of Leon Trotzky and Gregory Zinoviev, leaders of the Communist Opposition, recently deposed from their official positions in the Third (Communist) International (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926, & Oct. 10). Still members of the Central Executive Committee, their presence gave rise to much speculation. Would they address the Committee? Would their attitude be compromise or further defiance? Would the Committee oust them? These were questions that Leningraders and Communists asked themselves...
...Perhaps the central problem this year was that of China," continued Professor Wilson. "The exclusion of foreigners, the Shanghai incident, the struggles of contending generals, taxes and tariffs, were discussed, as well as the aspirations and ideals of the Japanese people...
Professor McLaughlin went to Mexico last summer as geologist for a corporation which owns a rich silver mine on the Mess Central, a huge table and near the border of Durango and Sinalon, two native states on the West Coast...
...Harvard Union next Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock and will be open to all members of the University. Four men, two of whom will be undergraduates, will debate on the proposition: "Resolved, That this house believes that the Monroe Doctrine in its applications to South and Central America should be abandoned...