Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...
...Sherwood Eddy's mission to Russia of which I was a member was filled full of bunk!" Eager newsgatherers scribbled this statement as it fell from the lips of one William Rosenwald, son of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman Julius Rosenwald...
Though returning visitors to Soviet Russia differ widely among themselves as to present conditions in the largest nation (see above), a synthesis of their opinions may be blocked out in significant re- lief...
Power. Joseph Stalin now rules as the undisputed dictator of Soviet Russia. During the past twelve-month he has demonstrated his control of the Communist Party and the Government by reducing to political vassalage or inconsequence no less than six of Lenin's most potent disciples: Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Sokolnikov, Lashe-vich and Kamenev. The "new triumvirate" are: 1) Joseph Dzhugashvili "Stalin"- political "boss" par excellence, nominally only Secretary General of the Communist Party; 2) Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissars (i. e. "Premier"). 3) B. B. Quibe-schev, successor to the late...
Religion. The State no longer interferes with the right of adults to worship or believe as they please. All members of the Communist Party, the political oligarchy which governs Russia, must however profess total atheism...