Word: russian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...heels of the Italian and Russian flascos comes the report from the Near East of the death of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. The loss of the leader of the British forces in Mesopotamia is a blow which will be felt on two continents: in Europe, where his repeated successes against the Turks were the one bright ray of hope amid a policy of bungling; and in Asia, where his name and fame were the admiration, if not the idol, of the natives...
...amusement resort that the Army and Navy have. It is the soldier's oasis in the midst of the horrors of battle. The French and the Italians want the American Y. M. C. A. to take up its work behind their lines and it has promised to comply. The Russians need our assistance in the form of both huts and cantonments. Their Army is in many places demoralized: the poison of German propaganda is having its dire effect of which the antidote is work such as Dr. Mott discribed. The Russian soldier has many hours of leisure, he must...
...Documents captured recently show that the Bolsheviki are not mainly Russian idealists, but German propagandists. The socialist Democrats are undoubtedly sincere...
...Recent troubles are due very largely to the All-Russian Executive Committee, which was appointed by a huge Congress of restless soldiers and laborers. More or less deliberately this Committee has usurped many powers that belong only to the central government, such as the issuing of 'ukases', and a most harmful attempt at democratizing the army. Thus the responsibility rests on the central government, while a great part of the power is in the hands of the Committee. This dualism has paralyzed the central power, and made the situation almost hopeless. However, I believe that Russia's reserve of patriotism...
...affairs in Russia; we have published the ideas of Trotsky and the Bolshevikis and conscientiously done our best to keep the undergraduates posted as to who's who in Petrograd. Yet by the time the CRIMSON reaches its readers, the whole situation has changed. The trouble is that the Russians can arrange a revolution in less time than a newspaper can go to press,--they are faster than the Mexicans. So we give up, and until definite news has reached us that one party is in power at least twenty-four hours, we shall refrain from posting the Russian score...