Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Stahlberg, the first President of Finland since that country, in 1917, declared itself free and independent of Russia, was elected by the Diet in 1919. The present popular presidential election is the first to be held...
...excellent commentary on culture under a democracy and, as such, is a subject neither for exultation nor for despair. If Zane Gray and Oliver Curwood seem complacent and unaesthetic to the intelligentsia, they are, nevertheless, the first choice of a complacent and unaesthetic mobocracy. If in this country, unlike Russia, there is no Tchaikowsky, neither are there downtrodden serfs. The peaks of achievement have been sacrificed for the development of the average. "The greatest good of the greatest number" is a theory that makes for social justice but hardly for the greatest...
...conduct this array of voices and instruments through a piece certainly not noted for its simplicity, is an undertaking worthy of Boston's greatest Symphonic leader. Born at Tver, in the north of Russia, M. Koussevitsky began the study of music very early in life. At the age of twelve he led the Municipal Orchestra in a brilliant concert, and was considered the prodigy of the age. Later he played the double bass in the Moscow Imperial Orchestra, until he again took up conducting...
...Turkey entered the war on the side of Germany," said M. Moukbil, "in order to protect herself against the aggressions of a Russo-Franco-British entente which was planning to take Constantinople and the coasts of the Black Sea to give to Imperial Russia. This is substantiated by documents from the Russian archives recently made public by the Soviet Government...
...foreigners, the battle begun between Trotzky and Zinoviev is an episode in the great epic of the greatest revolution humanity has ever known. For us, the contest is nothing more than a frantic race in which each man, Trotzky and Zinoviev, seeks to arrive at the domination of Russia...