Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things too important to be left out were reshaped into convenient forgeries. There were only four lines in our books on the American Revolution and the United States Constitution, but there were separate volumes on the Russian Revolution. America's role in World War II was downgraded in every possible way. They taught us that Germany assailed the USSR and Russia had to fight quite alone against the Nazi military mechanism. The West, they declared, opened the second front only after the heroism of the Russian people, under the genius of Stalin and the leadership of the Communist party...
Before and during World War II these countries were victims of Hitler's fascism. Following his defeat, their suffering peoples happily expected to forget totalitarian terrors and achieve democratic governments, and they welcomed as liberators the soldiers of the Russian army. But the liberators overstayed their welcome, undermining and finally destroying their prestige by acts of plundering and barbarism. And, still worse in the long run, they became the intimidating force that set up puppet governments and forced non-communist parties and politicians into eclipse. In the complete nationalization that followed the schools were, of course, included, and a systematic...
...exaggerations were the claims made for Russia's fabulous inventors. These credited Popov with the discovery of the radio and made Marconi only a thief who profitted from the fruit of Popov's searches. Zhukovskij, the "father of flying," replaced the Wright brothers, Edison also bowed out before a Russian, and so on until every epochal inventive laurel was redistributed...
Acheson, besides advocating a build-up of European troop strength, warned that a withdrawal of U.S. troops from their overseas bases would be a signal for Russian attack...
Administration of the Center is carried on by the Committee on East Asian Studies, headed by Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages. Like the center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Russian Research Center, it is under the overall supervision of the Regional Studies Committee...