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...retire in a very decent manner." Writes Byrnes: "For many reasons the Soviets do not want war now. They will, I believe, 'retire in a very decent manner.' But if the other powers do not 'hold firm' then, as Marx warned us of the Czarist Russians, 'conquest follows conquest and annexation follows annexation...
...first time the Hi valley has seen strange flags. Soldiers of Czarist Russia moved into the fertile Ili in the middle 1870s. The Manchu Dowager Empress, in one of her few feats of diplomacy, persuaded them to depart...
...once raised such a commotion when a dean tried to censor him that the university's president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World War I he became an ardent pacifist, was booed and hissed by patriotic gatherings whenever he spoke. Embarrassed U.S. Jews denounced him as disloyal...
...Czarist Russia abolished the death penalty, except for political offenses-used it rarely even then. The Revolution, made largely by men who had been imprisoned or exiled when they would have been executed in many other countries, abolished all capital punishment on Feb. 16, 1920, reinstated it three months later. Anti-Bolshevik Russians remember that Feb. 15, 1920, became known as the "Night of Blood" because the Communist executioners worked hard to beat the deadline...
...Party. Marx somewhat inconsistently referred to Lassalle as "Baron Izzy" and "the little Jew." Another victim was Michael Bakunin, an ardent Russian anarchist who threatened Marx's, control of the First International (founded in 1864 in London). Marx charged Bakunin with shady financial dealings and with being a Czarist agent. He could not make the charge stick, but Bakunin withdrew to lick his wounds...