Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bolshevik any more. I wish I had never run away from Leavenworth. I am hungry and homesick, and if I cannot find work in Constantinople I am going back to the United States. I had rather live in Leavenworth any time than Bolshevist Russia. It ain't a white man's country...
...happened last week that the Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin gave a dinner at the Russian Embassy for his colleague, M. Herbette, French Ambassador-designate to Russia. M. Herbette pondered long over his dress. Should it be corduroy pants, a flannel shirt and a shoddy coat? Or the capitalistic regalia of full evening dress? Inquiries, discreetly made, revealed that the sombre black and white of evening dress would be worn. But still, the reception and dinner would be a simple affair, for the Bolsheviki are noted for their Spartan simplicity...
...book deals with the influence of the French Revolution on British society-using that word in its broad sense-and parallels to some extent the present day influence of the Bolsheviki on nations outside of Russia. Readers of Carlyle, of Burke, of biographers such as John Morley, of other historians, will have a clear idea of the magnitude of the diversified reactions which the bloody fall of the French monarchy had in England. But in this book these influences are specifically set forth in relation to the then radicals and with an intensely penetrating analysis of an aspect...
...Russian alphabet in hand, examined it for superfluous members, pruned here, excised there, threw five letters out bodily, published a new, curtailed alphabet which shortens the written Russian language by one-twelfth and makes its spelling "twice as logical." It was pointed out that had not illiteracy abounded in Russia, the Ministry would have encountered the same difficulty faced by the late Theodore Roosevelt
...changes should effect a saving about four years out of the education every Russian child and they reduce the cost of printing in Russia something like 15 million dollars a year...