Word: communings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silence. Suddenly a score or more of bands struck up the Internationale and down one of the aisles came some French Communists from the Department of the Seine to present to Peasant Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committe, one of the original flags of the Paris Commune (Europe's first encounter with Karl Marx Communism)-the last to go over the barricades when the French regulars from Versailles crushed the Reds. In the centre of the delegation fluttered from a pole the faded red flag; on the top of the pyramid Kalinin received...
...Council of the League of Nations on the application of Finland presented an advisory case concerning the status of East Karelia (labor commune in Russia). The population of East Karelia is largely Finnish; the Finns are anxious to know if the Soviet Government did or did not undertake to make the internal administration of East Karelia an international affair, when it signed the Treaty of Dorpat...
...cottage at Dole, in the Vosges, where Pasteur was born, the son of a poor tanner, has been purchased for 40,000 francs by John D. Rockefeller and others as a centenary gift to the people of the commune. It will be remodeled by the French into a public museum...
...position is also new. It is indispensable for them to obtain a kind of self-government which allows them to establish a state of affairs that considers the necessities of commerce and industry. In many a city the princes resisted their attempts, and then they revolted to establish a 'commune' by force. All municipal constitutions, however, are not 'communes', for many have been brought about peacefully. The details of the city government vary throughout Europe, but everywhere the city presents two essential characteristics: it possesses a court of justice and an administrative council. The 'bourgeois' form a privileged class, like...