Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock: In Harvard 1, Associate Professor Pipes evokes the golden days of imperial Russin, when a czar was a czar and a serf a serf, History 155b starts with mystic Alexander 1 and continues until the debacle of 1917 marked the end of all good things. The errant anglonmle may emerge from the Stuart era to listen to Professor Brower disuss in Sever 31, eighteenth century poetry, from Dryden to Wordsworth...
...refused to echo the music in his mind, he wept. The place was Molodi, a village 38 miles from Moscow, and the time was the year of peace 1913. The quiet gardens surrounding his parents' summer house, legend had it, had once served as a battlefield for the Czar's Cossacks and Napoleon's retreating French. Near by, graves dotted the ground...
...turning into a Russian disaster. Banzai-shouting Japanese troops were pushing the Russians back in Manchuria; Port Arthur was cut off; and the proud Russian ships in the harbor were immobilized by the prowling warships of Japan's Admiral Togo. At that point in June 1904, Czar Nicholas II decided on a last, desperate gamble to relieve the Russian forces; he ordered Vice Admiral Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhestvensky to sail four brand-new Suvoroff battleships at the head of a task force of some 40 ships from their Baltic home ports to the Sea of Japan...
...AIRWAYS CZAR to control jet-age traffic will be either CAA administrator James Pyle or President's aviation adviser, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood Quesada. Commerce Under Secretary Louis Rothschild sorely wanted job, but airmen protested he was too close to rail interests...
Moorehead leaves his subject with a grim picture: the murder of the Czar and his family. The Bolsheviks later executed five responsible for the massacre, establishing a tradition-elimination of witnesses-that would cost many of the Reds their own lives. Concludes Moorehead: 'The wheel had now turned almost full cycle from [Czar] Nicholas to Lenin, from autocracy back to autocracy again . . . Bread and Peace' had been at the heart of the party's program from the beginning. What Russia was now about to receive was famine and civil...