Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian sky is very large and under it some of the queerest things in history have happened. One of them happened last week. Leon Trotzky, ne Bronstein, former War Lord of Russia, arrived in Moscow. His entrance was as quiet as was his exit last January (TIME, Jan. 26). There were no bands, no cheering people, no officials?the Kremlin was cold to his return. At the same time, Grigori Zinoviev, Chairman of the Third (Communist) Internationale, nicknamed "the bomb-boy of Bolshevism," left Moscow for the Caucasus, allegedly for his health...
...plays in retrospect. Certainly it can not be called realism, that poetic articulation of the hero and that some what exotic and thoroughly ureal symbol of the moon. If the author sees fit to tumble houses in incoherent masses on his back-drop, if he chooses to induce the Russian quality of the Fates in the person of the garbage man, how can it be called realism? As for romanticism, and the sentiment that "The Moon is a Gong is a corking love story", there is still more room for wonder. To bring a judgment to this individualistic play that...
...exhibition escaped from the influence of the military; hard horizons, khaki browns diminished; dead men in rutted lanes gave place to somnolent picnickers under willow trees. Sculpture, allowed a surprisingly limited space, also displayed more of the amenities of art, less of the chaste rigidity of tombstone-cutting. Russian exiles and Americans were hung in fair numbers...
Reports promulgated by the Russian Information Bureau declared that, on Feb. 1, the All-Russian Union of Professional Hunting Cooperatives had enrolled 230,000 families. Although this figure (if correct) is but a small part of the 9,000,000 individuals who are more or less dependent upon hunting, it was estimated to represent nearly a third of the several million Russians whose lives are spent in the chase. Russian fur-getting thus takes its place as one of the organized occupations in the world. The organization is less than two years...
...same time, it was announced that Russian fur and game exports last year amounted to $75,000,000-second only to grain. And it was pointed out that sable was worth more than its weight in gold: 36 pounds of gold are worth 21,000 gold rubles, whereas 36 pounds of sable (180 skins) are worth 22,500 gold rubles...