Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore it is a clear if paradoxical fact that, although there are fewer members of the Communist Party of Russia than there are Communists in Germany, yet the whole number of Russians who vote* must and do vote Communist, whether or not they profess Communism. Of course the number of Russians who do profess Communism, and in that sense only are "Communists," is many times greater than the number of Germans who vote the Communist ticket...
Historians could not recall a gesture equally spacious since Catherine the Great of Russia was hymned in heroic ballads for calling in an entire army to assuage her ardors. Even in that instance, persons in a position to know reported that Her Majesty swooned after the first regiment. Meticulous historians place the number even lower...
...Princess Xenia of Russia, second cousin once removed of the late Tsar Nicholas II, is better known in Manhattan as rich Mrs. William B. Leeds. Three months ago she brought to the U. S. as her guest a famed & mysterious young woman, "Mme. Tchaikovsky" (TIME, Feb. 20), who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, fourth and youngest daughter of Nicholas the Last...
Overwhelming eye witness & circumstantial evidence supports the general belief that Anastasia was murdered with the Tsar & Family, at Ekaterinburg, East Russia, on July...
John Dewey was setting out with his huge casualness "to have a look at Russia." Of course the news of his impending visit had elicited from Soviet Commissar of Education Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky a formal invitation and an expression of enthusiasm that the Second Confucius was coming. Comrade Lunacharsky is a Red, but he knows his Deweys. A dynamo of energy, he not only directs the Commissariat (Ministry) for Education, but writes plays, is President of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant...