Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Catherine Breshkovsky, octogenarian "grandmother of the Russian (Kerensky) Revolution of 1917," spoke to the world from her place of exile, the ancient and venerable city of Prague, CzechoSlovakian capital. She declared that Tsarism "was a little misfortune" to Russia compared with the slough of despondency into which Bolshevism has thrown that unfortunate country...
...Trotzky is temperamentally a dictator who believes himself destined to rule the world. Zinoviev is a gay liver, a lover of wine, champagne and good cheer. He has suffered a lot and knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship...
...Government published official statistics showing that the number of adult members of the Communist Party is 699,679. Zinoviev reflected that there are 132,000,453 people in the Russian Union living on 7,041,120 square miles...
...famed Russian composer's name can be spelled in a variety of ways; Tschaikowsky is the chosen of TIME...
...languages, Finnish and Swedish; 88% of the population speaking Finnish and 12% Swedish. No other languages are used in general, although most educated Finns speak one or two of the great Western European languages and some 40,000 out of a population of three and one-third millions speak Russian besides Finnish...