Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscure rendezvous in Paris the meeting will take replace. 'No blare of trumpets, no strains of martial music, no pomp and circumstance worthy of the Emperor of the Russians will mark the debut of Cyril into the political whirl of Europe. That is all for the future. The Prefect of Police has ordered out no extra details of gendarmes to handle the crowds. The hotels have created to tents on their roofs to accommodate the influx of Russian nobles. Society of gay French capital is in no frenzy of excitement "of the prospect of leaving so much royalty...
Emma Goldman has turned her back on Russia and the Bolsheviks. "An abyss," she says, "separates the Russian people and the Bolshevik government." At almost the same moment comes word that the much heralded movement for University primary education has failed. Soviet Minister of Education Lunacharsky in a report to the Central Executive Committee bewails a general decline. Only one-third as many children receive instruction today as in the closing years of the Romanoff regime...
Since the beginning of Bolshevik rule the dictator's hold has been precarious. But external circumstances helped him. Continued hostility of foreign countries mustered all the force of Russian patriotism to support the Bolshevik cause. But this bulwark, of late, is losing force. The great dictator is dead. Establishment of diplomatic relations with the important countries of Europe, moreover, brings peace with the outside world a condition new to Soviet experience. With pressure from without removed, Russian national feeling wanes. Now for the first time the Russian has leisure to survey conditions at home. And the suspicion prevails that...
During the seven years of Bolshevik control, an extraordinary gullibility has possessed the Russian people. It has been easy for them to accept shadows for reality. "You are free," shouted the dictator. And the multitude took up the cry: "Yea, we are free." "State education for every child," promised the dictator. "For every child," echoed the crowd. But words, after all, are only words, even in Russia. The promise of universal education has turned out meaningless. There is no way to judge how extensive is the disillusion of which Forma Goldman is so signal an example...
...This is the psychological moment for the development of American Music," said Mr. Rabinoff. "The chaos in Europe has made available in this country for the first time men of first class musical talents." He spoke particularly of one man, a famous Russian conductor, whom he had offered $3500 a week before the war in a vain effort to get him to come to this country. This same man is now living from hand to mouth in Berlin, willing to offer his immense talents to anyone who will give him enough to live...