Word: russian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Howard Taft" a far more appealing and interesting book than one's impressions of the Taft administration would make one suspect. . . . Boris Souvarine's "Stalin" is less a biography than an attack on the man who, in the author's opinion, has sold out the ideals of the Russian Revolution...
SVANVIK, Norwegian-Finnish Frontier Russian troops led by whippet tanks tonight reached the Norwegian frontier when they marched into the nickel-mining town of Salmajaervi, left a blazing mass of ruins by the torches and dynamic blastings of retreating Finnish troops...
Copenhagen and Stockholm reports said that Finnish planes had bombed a 12-mile stretch of the rail line near Murmansk, ripping up tracks and thoroughly disrupting Russian communications...
HELSINKI--Finnish forces were reported unofficially tonight to have invaded Russian territory in a strong drive north of Lake Ladoga which the Government's military communique described as a "great success" costing the Red Army heavy casualties...
...Finns, carrying the war to Russian soil as the conflict enters its third week, were reported without confirmation to be striking toward Russia's vital Leningrad-Murmansk railroad, lying 55 or 60 miles across the eastern frontier...