Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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First, the industrial strikers, who are clamoring for wages due to them since last August, have it in their power to paralyze the Government by a complete stoppage of work. Even the Pravda, Moscow Communist Journal, declared that the situation was distressing, and that the trouble was likely to be aggravated unless firmly handled. In some cases the workers demanded not only their overdue pay, but deposits in industrial banks as a guarantee for regular wages in future...
...largest is the Izvestiya (News) which, together with the Moscow Pravda (The Truth), is the official Soviet organ. But no part of the press can be said to be independent of the Government. The last press conference was held in the Kremlin, and no ordinary person enters the Kremlin. Bukharin addressed the conference, saying: " Thanks to our press, which has always furthered the recruiting power of our slogans and made the exalted nature of our ideals clear to the masses, we have been able to devlop our power and to strengthen our Soviet system...
Leon Trotzky: " A speech I made at the inauguration of 'Sverdlov's Communistic University,' Moscow, was summarized by the Pravda: 'A true revolutionist is a man who is not afraid of blowing up, of resorting to a pitiless violence. He must not be restrained by any considerations that might keep him from resorting to violence; it is for this reason that the education of a revolutionist must be based on atheism...
...grain on the world market through the Black Sea, and to a certain extent through the Baltic ports. Prices will be based on American wheat prices. The estimated value will be 6,300,000 gold rubles ($3,150,000), indicating an export of at least 3,000,000 bushels. Pravda, Communist journal gloomily announces that another famine is impending...
...chapter of Trotzky's new book, Questions of Everyday Life, appeared recently in the columns of Pravda, Moscow Communist journal...