Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, a little man tugged delightedly at his large ears-a sign that he was greatly pleased, puzzled or vexed. He was the great Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, the friend of Japan, the implacable foe of Soviet Russia, overlord by right of might throughout all Manchuria. He was pleased because his son, General Chang Hsueh-liang, had just entered Peking at the head of a victorious army...
...Volga Boatman. Cecil B. DeMille, whose name has become synonymous with ridiculous excesses in bathtubs and flappers, has turned to Russia. He has taken the seething horrors of the Russian Revolution and turned them into a pale pink romance that will give you the fidgets. The Boatman of the title falls in love with the Princess, and the Princess falls foul of the wicked soldiers. The picture is often rescued by sets and photography of startling beauty...
...movement started in Great Britain, and spread from there, taking a very strong hold in Germany, Russia, and Switzerland. It has proved especially influential in rural districts; in one Swiss town where the same man was mayor of the town and President of the Cooperative Society it was said that he considered the latter position by far the more important. This is an indication of the trend away from political coercive rule toward voluntary control by the people themselves...
...illiterate. All of these are countries in which democratic government has attained high development through many and troublous experiments. In Italy, where representative government has been at best a bad dream and at worst a nightmare, the percentage of illiterates reaches thirty-one, in Spain fifty-eight, and in Russia sixty-nine. Evidently success in democracy usually accompanies a high percentage of literacy...
...large slave populations obviously precludes such a conclusion. Yet it does definitely appear that literacy must prevail among the franchised if popular government is to remain effective. The giving of political privilege to the educationally and hence politically incompetent has made a farce of Democracy in Italy, Spain, and Russia, and all but destroyed it in those countries. The need for good government in Democratic nations is thus a sanction for universal education and, conversely, the success of democratic government in the more literate countries suggests that the educative efforts have not been entirely amiss...