Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussions were on the relations of the Little Entente with Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland...
Nintchitch brought the attention of the conference upon Bulgaria, whose attitude, he claimed, did not make for peace in Macedonia; M. Duca, in this instance, put the moderation damper on his colleague's ardor. Recognition of the Soviet Government of Russia was left to the individual action of members of the Entente. Discussion on the Great Powers of Europe was confined to political considerations...
...MacDonald then cataloged the aims of the Labor Party: To establish European peace on "an understanding of humane" men and women, "who have no cause for war, no cause for enmity"; to use the League of Nations "without reserve as the main instrument of securing international justice"; to recognize Russia and so end "the pompous folly of standing aloof from the Russian Government"; to encourage trade "from the coasts of Japan to the coasts of Ireland"; to deal with unemployment by creating a Labor Department "staffed by men and women of labor experience; experience, aye, and knowledge, the spirit, insight...
...acceptable to the Russian people than would Grand Duke Cyril, whose vague land policy would not be acceptable to the peasants and whose family name (Romanov) is anathema to them. Furthermore, it was alleged that Prince Wizamosky would be willing to embrace the good reforms that were introduced into Russia by the Kerensky régime...
...Russia christenings, marriages and death ceremonies occur, are celebrated and mourned without the aid of the Church. Bolshevism has given a peculiar tinge to the first ceremony. Among Russian names are given: Vladimir Ilich (after Lenin whose real name is V. I. Ulianov-Lenin) ; Klara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg (after two leading women Bolsheviki) ; Jaurès (after a French Communist, assassinated in 1914) ; Rem, meaning "revolution, electrification and meer (peace)"; Nep, meaning New Economic Policy; and some others...