Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaty upholds and guarantees Rumania in her seizure of the onetime Russian province of Bessarabia after the World War. Britain has signed (1922); France signed (1924); and now the signature of Italy leaves only that of Japan necessary to make the treaty binding...
Five thousand Russians paid $6,000 to hear famed Menshevik* Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky, onetime Russian Dictator, speak at the Century Theatre, Manhattan. Amid furious excitement a half-ton bronze candelabra was uprooted and flung down in the lobby by the sheer pressure of the crowd. Bolsheviks† yelled. Tsarists brandished canes. Both factions detest M. Kerensky because he is more radical than the Tsarists and less radical than the Bolsheviks...
Professor Karpovich then explained that for centuries, the Russian peasants had had a desire to take over all the land in the country. The Kerensky government had itself been in favor of such a move but intended to effect it in an orderly manner. The Bolsheviks on the other hand advocated immediate seizure and the people were in such a frenzy that the quicker course was by far the more popular. The Reds thus had two trump cards, immediate peace and immediate seizure of land; the people did not support the Bolsheviks because they were such, but because...
Alarmist travelers from northern China told: 1) that a Soviet Russian army of 50,000 men is assembling in Mongolia north of Peking; 2) that the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang is moving slowly down upon North Central China with his large itinerant army (TIME...
Died. Mikhail Petrovich Artsibashev, 48, famed Russian author, great-grandson of 'Tadeusz Kosciuszko (temperamental Pole who fought for the American colonists in 1777); in Warsaw. Tales of the Revolution, (1917) gives intimate pictures of Russia's debacle...