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...happened that these Russians failed to get general recognition all these years while Western impostors usurped their glory? Moscow had the answer for that, too. It was the fault of the czarist iron curtain, which repressed science and free thought...
...that he became a leader of the pre-revolutionary Socialists whom he was assigned to watch. He betrayed each side to the other, not once or twice, but day in & day out over nearly 20 years. He sent his revolutionary comrades to Siberia and organized the murder of several Czarist bigwigs. Where did his real sympathies lie? Probably with Azef. He managed to get out of the country and lived out his days in Germany, peacefully playing the stockmarket and horsing around at bourgeois seaside resorts (see cut). Azef was the living transition between the Czar's police state...
Sidewalk Superintendent. Avon was started in 1927 by the late Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle, domineering daughter of a steel millionaire and wife of a onetime U.S. Ambassador to czarist Russia. An admirer of the medieval and a semiprofessional architect, she personally sidewalk-superintended the construction of Avon Old Farms, twelve miles out of Hartford. Only hand-hewn stone and oak were used, and bricklayers had to rip out rows of crude bricks because they laid them in too straight to suit Mrs. Riddle (it cost her $125,000 to do over the dining-hall roof...
Illustrating his talk with slides depicting Russian plays and moving-pictures, Dana stressed the work of young Soviet playwrights, who choose to show the "healthy joy of the common people instead of the introspection of Czarist novelists." He noted the freedom of expression as well as variety and genius of theatrical experiment that mark the current Moscow stage, and spoke at length on the work of Serge Eisenstein as an important fence in the cinema...
...Kremlin, through Pravda, squelch the plan to create another great Communist-dominated state? Partly because the Kremlin's bosses, as inheritors of Czarist foreign policy, did not want a revived and enlarged Austro-Hungarian empire; partly (and more important), from fear that their puppets might get out of hand. Party discipline inside the U.S.S.R. has been maintained for so long by police power that Moscow looks askance at Communists like Dimitrov and Tito who control police states of their...