Word: duma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those stars above lending strength to a performance by taking secondary roles now and then, as when Mazurok sings the small role of the sec retary of the Duma in Boris. During a rehearsal in New York, one singer be gan to chatter on stage. The others shooshed her. Stars at the Bolshoi...
...with the new ideas and technological improvements that were completely changing his own 19th-century world. The revolution that had rocked Europe in both philosophic and industrial terms since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 did not penetrate the unfriendly borders of Russia. Nicholas felt a token Parliament, the Duma, would stem the revolutionary tide of 1905. He approved a nationalistic birthday celebration of the 300th year of Romanov reign and relaxed in his luxurious train on a trip into the country, saying in the movie, "I didn't want to come on this trip...
...socialist who first gained prominence as an eloquent defense attorney, Kerensky turned against Czar Nicholas II after the "Bloody Sunday" massacre of 1905, in which a procession of workers was cut down by Czarist troops. Reassured by constitutional reforms, he sided with the regime and was elected to the Duma (Parliament) in 1912. When repression increased again during World War I, Kerensky began to speak out against the Czar, and in the revolution that followed, eventually took over the provisional government. When General Lavr Kornilov-whom Kerensky had appointed commander of the army-attempted an unsuccessful coup d'etat...