Word: russian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editorials and a book-review close the number. The editorial on Russian relief work is particularly timely and valuable. The reviewer of "Christine" is, we think, quite right in assuming the letters therein to be fictitious. He does not mention the interesting theory that Owen Wister is the real author. Yet there are obvious similarities between "Christine" and "The Pentecost of Calamity" in point of style and method...
Pessimism because of Italian losses or a Russian upheaval need not be too great. Activity in France is just as important. The defense along the Taglia-mento has called away attention from the present British advance beyond Ypres. This receives no very prominent place in the news; yet it may be of enormous consequence. In the first place, here is further proof that the English have conclusively solved the problem of how to win in trench warfare. The lack of emphasis in the papers only shows that such a drive is more and more a matter of course. Furthermore, unlike...
...should like to correct the passage in the CRIMSON'S account of my address before the Cosmopolitan Club on Friday evening, in which I am represented as having spoken of the Russian Socialist parties as "led by men who for the most part are not honest fighters for an ideal, but German agents, who wish to stop the war and incourage a social revolution." Naturally, I made no such sweeping and unjustifiable indictment. But I did use substantially the words cited above with regard to some leaders of the most radical wing of the Russian Socialists, the Bolsheviki. This statement...
...Catastrophe is the catch word in Russia at the present time," said Dr. R. H. Lord '06, at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in Phillips Brooks House last evening, as he was describing the impressions he gained of the Russian situation during his stay there last summer. "The country was on the very verge of political ruin and economic collapse. The army wouldn't fight, the workmen wouldn't work, and the government couldn't govern. The crisis was caused by four general conditions: the antagonism between the socialist parties and the bourgeoisie; the total paralysis of the government...
...condition of the army has improved immensely during the last two months but the economic conditions are much worse. The workmen will not obey their superintendents. Russian industry has fallen off immeasurably since the revolution, to 60 or 70 per cent of what it was last year. Everyone expects serious outbreaks this winter but yet I feel sure that Russia will eventually pull through, but not without many hard knocks...