Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working business bodies in the world. Unlike the Council and the Assembly it is continuous, and transacts practical business every day of the year. It consists of 350 highly paid experts and their secretaries and clerks, chosen by examination, from every important nation in the world, except Germany and Russia...
Allied conferences since the war have usually been declared successful if they accomplished nothing more than to preserve the Entente. This important diplomatic relation between France and England, which Italy and then Russia subsequently joined, was brought about in 1904 and marked the close of the period of "colonial rivalry". Only careful nursing has kept it alive during the last few years; and it now seems on the point of death from an acute attack of the Ruhr...
...addition, a host of foreigners are entering Russia, seeking concessions for various enterprises...
Since 1917 the Government of Russia has changed in form, but not in effect. The Czarist oligarchy has given way to proletariat absolutism. But the mass of the great Russian population remains as apathetic as ever...
...revolt has broken out and a large force composed of peasants and Don Cossacks is moving on Kieff. In the Far East, General Semenov, formerly Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies, is raising a military force at Vladivostok and proposes to start a counter revolution. In the West, Russia, with her finger on the trigger, observes the writhing struggles of all Europe...