Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said a spectator: "If Trotzky had risen to speak then, he would have carried the audience, Moscow and all Russia with him. He might have swept the other party leaders aside and become a dictator-anything. But he remained motionless and gave no sign. That's Trotzky-too loyal, too sincere, to think of self at the risk of causing a split in the party-Trotzky, the man they accused of menshevism, individualism, ambition...
...recently concluded treaty of recognition between China and Russia (TIME, June 9, 16) among other things affirmed the sovereignty of China over Outer Mongolia and stipulated for the exclusive control by Russia and China of the Chinese Eastern Railway...
During the past week Foreign Minister Koo sent notes to the U. S., French and Japanese Ministers at Peking, virtually stating that the foreign nations had nothing to do with the Chinese Eastern Railway which would henceforth be controlled by Russia and China. Such a note was indeed a rebuff to the U. S., as well as to France and Japan...
...Chinese Eastern Railway was built by Russia under a contract concluded in 1896 and the railway zone was administered solely by Russians. In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, the U. S. took over temporarily the operation of the railways. During this period the Wilson Administration spent $5,000,000 for the upkeep of the railway, which stun is now owing...
...Lenin and the Communist International, 2) activities of the Executive Committee and tactics, 3) world economic position; 4) future policy, 5) tactics relating to the labor federation movement, 6) national questions, 7) questions of organization, 8) propaganda, 9) Fascism, 10) questions about the intelligentsia, 11) economic position of Russia, 12) question of the peasants, 13) Young Communist movement, 14) Communist aid organization, 15) questions of different sections, 16) question of coöperatives, 17) election of the Executive Committee and President...