Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Internal Soviet Economics. Institutions of a "capitalistic" nature are slowly being reintroduced into Russia. An example in point is money. Up to 1921, the Soviet authorities continuously debased the ruble by inflation until it all but vanished, with the avowed intention of employing thereafter a system of communal barter into which money would not enter. Since 1921 a reversal of this policy has resulted in the creation of a new State Bank and the introduction of the Tchervonets (plural "Tchervontsy"), a monetary unit equivalent to 10 pre-war gold rubles...
Allegedly 50% of the retail trade of Soviet Russia is now in the hands of private traders, but foreign trade continues a Government monopoly...
...Central Executive Committee (Cabinet) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia) caused Zionist hearts to palpitate last week by setting aside a portion of the Ukraine to be known hereafter as the Autonomous Jewish Socialist Soviet Republic...
...Charles Smith of Manhattan, president of an Association for the Advancement of Atheism, found his way into public prints last week. Experiments were to be conducted, he said, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to "support" Evolution by breeding apes with humans. Soviet Russia had contributed $10,000. A total of $100,000 was needed over a period of years. Eminent Professor Elie Ivanoff of Moscow had already departed for Africa to make preparations...
...What part of Russia is to be set apart for Jews...