Word: czaristic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Storr-Best is thoroughly acquainted with the Bolshevist educational system as it works out at present, as well as with the old Russian system which flourished under the Czarist regime. In addition to having lived many years in Russia, Dr. Storr-Best has recently taken extended trips through Czechoslovakia, Ingoslavia, Roumania, and Bulgaria for the British Board of Education with the purpose of making a detailed investigation of all types of education in these countries...
...mysterious death was the work neither of a German mine nor a German torpedo, but of the power which would not permit the Russian Army to recover with the help of Lord Kitchener because the destruction of Czarist Russia had been determined upon. Lord Kitchener's death was caused by his ability...
...exposures of the French press by Boris Souvarine in "I'Humanite" of Paris, reviewed in the current issue of "The Nation", are most startling and farreaching. Souvarine spent two years in Russia, examining the files of the old Czarist Minister of Finance; he returned with the sensational information, based on official documents and correspondence, that since 1904 the French press had been systematically bribed and subsidized by the Imperial government...
...floating of Russian bond issues in France to put down the first Russian revolution and to carry on the Russo-Japanese war, and later, to build up the Franco-Russian alliance. Due to the power of the journals billions of francs were invested by the French public in Czarist securities...
...statements almost as inaccurate as those he seeks to disprove. To cite two examples: his reference to the Sisson Documents as forged papers cannot be accepted without very grave qualifications, and his charge that the Russian Division of the State Department was allowed to become a centre for Czarist supporters and for Czarist intrigue is quite without foundation in fact...