Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ratifying the Anglo-Franco-Italo-Japanese treaty of 1925, upholding Rumania in her possession of the onetime Russian province of Bessarabia, now claimed by the Soviets-though without show of force...
...days later, at Christie's famed London auction room, the Imperial Russian nuptial crown- composed of double rows of brilliants, surmounted by a diamond cross-was placed on sale by the Soviet Government, hawked, cried up from an initial bid of $25,000, auctioned off at last to a Parisian jeweler, M. Founess...
DECADENCE-Maxim Gorky-McBride ($2.50). Freely translated, the pen-name, "Gorki," means "bitter."* But in this study of Russian babbitts, Author Gorky is no Sinclair Lewis. He is impassive and even pitying toward those stupid, acquisitive bipeds-serfs before 1861, small-town industrialists thereafter-whose tendency to "make another America" out of Russia was retarded by 20th Century revolutions. This lengthy history of the Artamonov family, father and sons, rising with their big linen factory to as much power as they can control, then losing it all, is not satire or invective. It is honest, impersonal realism, thoughtful though morose...
...Tolstoy's 'What is Art?' Analyzed" Professor Wiener, Sever 25, Russian...
...foreigners and Chinese living in these areas view with apprehension the suggestion that the administration be turned over to the Chinese authorities, because the experience of the ex-German, ex-Austrian and ex-Russian areas, turned back to Chinese jurisdiction during the past 10 years shows that in those areas the condition of the life and property, both of foreigners and Chinese, has become less satisfactory than formerly...