Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might go to smash on that alone*2) Although Germany is apparently not heeding Russia's menacing suggestions that she had best keep away from a Locarno pact (see RUSSIA) , she cannot but be . influenced by so powerful a neighbor and may be able to play off the Russian threat as a reason for acceding to some or all of the demands of the Allies; 3) Previous conferences have failed; those at Genoa, Cannes and The Hague broke up, and the Lausanne conference was carried through to the dissatisfaction of nearly all concerned...
Travel. The tea-drenched atmosphere of Russian stations is back to pre-War humidity. Newsstands are well filled. As the bell rings, comfortable dining and sleeping cars are thrown open to travelers, who need not struggle for a place. Through regions once stricken with famine, the traveler speeds past fields luxuriant with a ripening harvest. At the great Kursk Station in Moscow he finds piles of perishable foodstuffs, which are being rushed to customers able to pay for them, from a distance of 1000 miles or more...
Industry. Many Soviet industries still maintain a vague air of being on parade. Generally, however, manufacturers seem to lack capital and raw materials rather than customers. A visit to the offices of the All Russian Textile Syndicate gives the impression that that industry, at least, is being run at a profit along U. S. lines. Typewriters bang, executives hold conferences, work moves forward with all the earmarks of babbittry...
Regular football matches are played off between Finnish and Russian teams. Otherwise, Russians must find competition, like capital, at home. The mass of the population seems to be undergoing "a psychological change very like that through which the luckier sort of European immigrants pass during their first five or ten years in America...
...Four Russian agitators, after dallying several months in China, arrived at the Tokyo railroad station. A straggly thousand Japenese workmen desired to see them, meet them, fraternize. The Tokyo police were instructed to prevent these courtesies, and, 400 strong, intervened between the visitors and the astonished workmen. Some violence and a few injuries ensued...