Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FOOTNOTE †A Soviet is a territorial and political division roughly equivalent to a county. Each Soviet has a Congress which meets once a year to elect an executive council for the conduct of local government and to choose representatives for the All-Russian Congress of Soviets which, when in session, is the sovereign authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S. R.-Russia...
...hold of a liner emerged two Russian Jews. Mr. and Mrs. Baline, landed in Manhattan, bearing with them a cloth-wrapped bundle, now Irving Berlin. At five, the child hawked papers in the Bowery. One day, a crane knocked him into the East River. When he was rescued, the ambulance surgeon found, still clutched in the minute Baline hand, five coppers, his day's takings...
...Lenin the Late promulgated his N. E. P. (New Economic Policy)− inviting foreign capital to exploit Russian concessions sharing profits with the Government−which virtually marked the receding of the waves of Communism from the shores of Capitalism. It was a fearless step to save Russia from economic ruin. It showed that Moscow Communists, whatever else they were, were not afraid to admit their errors and rectify them; but the Party held many diehards, notably ex-War Lord Trotzky. The N. E. P. was kept in force until 1923. Private traders began to gain confidence. The Government flirted...
...where recognized, where unrecognized, Russia secured few real ad- vantages, and Communism was seemingly drifting to Never Never Land. The Russian Bear sank down exhausted on its empty belly. Starvation was once more a reality. Discontent was growing more difficult to control. Elaborate propaganda failed to screen the actualities of a situation that was not far from desperate...
Divorced. Alexander Kerensky, Premier of the Russian revolutionary Government of 1917, now editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper in Prague, by Mme. Kerensky; in Leningrad. She charged desertion...