Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Dunham '21, of the Mount Wilson Observatory, has left, and Professor Boris Gerasimovic has returned to Kharkov, Russia, after spending nearly three years at the Harvard Observatory as research associate...
Returns to Russia After Three Years...
These countries and in addition Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and the Philippines were represented by delegations including historians, diplomats, bankers, educators, economists. Present were "observers" for France, Mexico, Soviet Russia. Though purely unofficial the Institute of Pacific Relations is Asia's nearest likeness to Europe's League of Nations...
...possible so long as this vast population might out-vote the rest of the globe. The second difficulty is that, if the majestic idea of a vast federation is actually carried out in Europe, two of the most important units must he omitted. The first of them is Russia. Five-sixths of the population of that Soviet Union live west of the Ural Mountains, commonly considered the boundary between Europe and Asia. But Russia has put out creepers across Asia which are not compatible with membership in a European federation. To be sure, the Soviet Union is the strongest believer...
Tadjikistan now ranks with the seven other Independent Socialist Soviet Republics: 1) White Russia; 2) The Ukraine; 3) Armenia; 4) Uzbek; 5) Georgia; 6) Azerbaijan; 7) Turcoman. The joker is that all of these "independent republics" are federated with the Moscow Government of "Russia Proper," officially the R. S. F. S. R. or Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. In theory the federal bond can be cast off by any Independent Republic at its sole discretion, but in practice such a step would bring Red Army divisions hot from Moscow...