Word: czaristic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1917 the Government of Russia has changed in form, but not in effect. The Czarist oligarchy has given way to proletariat absolutism. But the mass of the great Russian population remains as apathetic as ever...
...give an illustrated talk on "Conditions in Central Europe," in Peabody Hall, Phillips Broks House. Dr. Cadbury was a member of the Friends' Relief Committee and took an active part in relief work for many months. This committee, in addition to its work in Germany, worked in France and Czarist Russia during the war and is still working in Serbia, Poland, Austria and Soviet Russia. Dr. Cadbury's talk will be made more vivid since he has a large number of slides, including photographs of children, showing many of the actual conditions of suffering and want for the relief...
...anyone but the English to be a final boundary of Poland. It is true that the Riga line lies far east of the ethnographical limits of Poland as shown on most racial maps, but these maps were always made on the basis of estimates prepared by the old Czarist Government estimates grossly falsified for political reasons. How false they were is shown by the census taken in this country by the Germans in 1916 and by a far more comprehensive census taken by the Poles last February...