Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...component of The Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics of Transcaucasia, which is in turn a component of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics: "U. S. S. R.": "Russia...
...contemporary tradition--men who have been dead twenty years are equally neglected. It is actually impossible for an amateur to study in any of these great galleries, a single painting by Cazanne, Van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin, masters who are honored the world over--in London, Paris, Berlin, in Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, in the Low Countries, in Chicago and New York and Cleveland--but not in Boston. One must actually travel to Worcester to see paintings by Gauguin and Redon. In Boston, the development of 19th Century painting is half-heartedly illustrated through the Impressionist period. But after that we find...
...Russia, Belgium, stricken France lonow what war, the waster of prosperity, the harbinger of famine and pestilence, can do to plunge a nation into turmoil. Waste, extravagance, restlessness, immorality, and lawlessness are the inevitable results of war. America has felt these reactions only slightly, but all that is necessary to convince anyone of the World War's cost is to consider the statistics. Ten million men, the finest youth of the world, are dust today. Three hundred and sixty billion dollars have been squandered in the madness of strife...
...Russia During Revolution...
...Highness Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias, Crown Prince of Spain, was declared last week to be an hemophile by Le Matin, one of the least sensational of Parisian dailies. Le Matin's assertion that Prince Alfonso is subject to uncontrollable hemorrhages, as was the late Tsarevitch Alexis of Russia, served merely to define the nature of an illness long known to exist. Among other of Prince Alfonso's royal traits is, of course, the hereditary pouting nether lip of the Bourbons...