Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prowess on the battlefield." Attempts to make political capital out of the incident are not lacking; but nothing of a serious nature was put forward. Marshal Pilsudski was born of noble parentage in 1863 during the insurrection which was finally put down with great cruelty by the Russians after the Polos had appealed in vain to Europe. He was educated at Vilna and Kharkow, was deported to Siberia (1887-1892) for alleged complicity in a plot to assassinate the Tzar. His sympathy became definitely socialist after this and he was active in many movements for the emancipation of Poland...
...most conflicting rumors in regard to the religious situation in Russia agree on this: the Patriarch Tikhon, of Moscow, was unfrocked by the recent " All-Russian " council of the Greek Orthodox Church. The council was captured by radicals, and the Patriarch Tikhon, who was in a Soviet prison at the time, was unfrocked without a hearing. No man was put in his place, the church radicals believing in a more democratic form of church government. Tikhon, according to one report, was poisoned in prison. More recent reports assert that he has made his peace with the Soviet Government, and that...
Until December 30, 1922, Russia was known as the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. At that date, however, the four principal Soviet Republics (Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, White Russia, Ukraine, Transcaucasian Federation) met at Moscow and signed a Treaty of Union setting up the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which now embraces what might be termed Greater Russia...
German politicians, however, will not admit that it is this colossal manufacture of new currency that is causing the mark to seek the levels of the worthless Russian rouble. Instead, new and futile laws are being enacted against speculation in foreign exchange, and new and equally futile attempts are in process to somehow "stabilize" the mark exchange rate. At the present stage, it seems that either the German policy concerning the Ruhr must be abandoned, or else a political and social revolution in Germany must occur. The Ruhr occupation is proving expensive to France, but she can easily hang...
Paris to rally the Tsarist adherents to the old Russian flag under a common leader...