Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Persia lies strategically at the side door of India and at the back door of Russia,* a struggle to dominate the Government of Persia was waged between British and Russian agents, up to the period of the World War, on a basis of flagrant bribery and corruption. Amid the idealistic post-War period Persia barely escaped falling to the British Empire as a "mandate." Then the power of Soviet Russia gathered might, and the old Anglo-Russian struggle began again at Teheran. Finally the Government of Persia turned (or was swayed by British pressure) toward...
...some travelers the International Date Line is disconcerting, but not to Count Leo N. Tolstoi, philosopher, sculptor, playwright, political scientist, third son and namesake of the late Russian novelist. Crossing the Date Line eastward in 1917, he fell to thinking about the phenomenon. He noticed that it had made him feel blithe of spirit, hopeful. When he reached Chicago, he wrote in his notebook: "I have made a greater discovery than any man now living?perhaps it is the greatest discovery of all time...
...sects. *Bishop Manning who has come to seem dour and harsh as he has grown pontifical, in London repeated his great sermon castigating "companionate marriages," the term by which he describes ephemeral connubialities wherein contraceptives are used (TIME, July 4). Because he was in England, where wrath against the Russian Soviets is temporarily being kept hot (TIME, May 23), he made his sermon timely by blaming the idea of such unions on the Soviets. The present diplomatic separation between Great Britain and the Soviets, he said, the U. S. unanimously endorsed. Dr. Cadman, a less intense, a more mundane orator...
...save a youth (Robert D. Agnew) from a blond siren of the "swell-restaurant" set. The youth turns out to be the head waiter's son. Thus Destiny led the man without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand and gloomy novel about a Russian youth who seeks salvation in rationality and finds it in faith. In the course of his anguished gropings he commits a brutal murder, falls in love with a gentle girl. Phoenix Film Co. of Germany has telescoped the story onto the screen with sincerity enough to preserve its hulk but without...
...observers scanned afresh the statement of M. Stalin. Did he really fear an invasion by the Grand Duke Nikolai? A likely hypothesis seemed to be that Dictator Stalin was talking chiefly for home consumption. He and the Communist party cannot fail to benefit by the growing up among the Russian masses of an idea that the Communist regime alone stands as their defender against an "Alliance" headed by Great Britain...