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Word: russianize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe's chanceries. There really is ground for the belief that the Germans have been back of the agitation for Esperanto, in a desire to make an indirect attack on French and British influence through the French and English tongues. Also the Soviets recently attempted to compel the Russian Esperantists to use their language to further Bolshevist doctrines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Esperanto Spurned | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

Idiom Neutral, the most recent attempt at an international tongue (1902), is the simplest language yet devised. It is based on a thoroughly impartial and systematic study of English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Esperanto Spurned | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

Karl Radek, "after Lenin the ablest head among the Russian Rulers," said that the German bourgeoisie has lost its second war and that it will capitulate rather than precipitate the further fall of the mark and an uprising of the proletariat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Propitious Propinquity | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

Wrangel Land was sighted by Siberians early in the 19th Century. Baron Ferdinand Wrangel, a Russian explorer, attempted to penetrate the island, but failed. In retaliation he gave it his name. Hence the Soviet claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Man's Land? | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...When a man of the United States Senatorship calibre arrives at the Russian border he is spotted. He is not allowed to see or hear anything except that which Lenin and Trotzky would have him see and hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Titbits | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

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