Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 18 months' preparation, an exhibition of representative Russian Art is now open at the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. The committee of Russian Artists who assembled the paintings has included not only Slavic artists already familiar to Americans, but also those who are known only in their native land...
There are 600 canvases, including every Russian school. Much of the work shows the strong influence of Paris training and Salon example. One notes, however, the Slavic temperament and love of brilliant color asserting itself over the French training. The contrasting morbidity and brutality and the blatant gaiety that typify Russia are here displayed in all their aspects...
Rude strength is the Russian characteristic and is apparent in all the works of these assorted artists, no matter what the technique or the subject...
...Disavowed by all except a handful of his colleagues, he was content during the war to plough the lonely furrow. The coming of peace brought reconciliation but also new battles. For the next four years he was engaged in a struggle with Communism, with the ideas disseminated by the Russian Revolution--a struggle culminating in his duel with Radek in Berlin, April 1923, a struggle in which there was not only vindication for his honesty but success for his effort. The English Labor Party has been cleansed of the taint of Communism and Direct Action under which it labored during...
...John Reed '10 will go down in Russian history much the same way that Lafayette did in American history," said Miss Ann Louise Strong, prominent author and war correspondent speaking at the Liberal Club at luncheon yesterday afternoon. "He gave his life in service to the Russian people: he interpreted their struggle in an unprejudiced way that carned for him the esteem of all Russia. The fact that he is the only American buried outside the Kremlin in Moscow, and the John Reed Memorial non the banks of the Volga attest to the place he holds in Russia's heart...