Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entirely destroyed, so that at least the memory of the old may be compared with the products of the new. Turgenieff and Tchekhov are to be superseded by new authors; and they, in aiming at first-group ranking, need only take as a model this line from a recent Russian poet: "I feel a great desire to spit at the moon through the window...
...Leon Trotsky: "No one is neutral about him. Trotsky is either loved or despised." Hero of the army. His aides are as smart as any in the French War Office. Un-Russian passion for orderliness. A "phrase-maker," orator. Regarded by his "comrades" as a mixed blessing...
...Kalinin, second President of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic: Represents the peasants, who reëstablished private property. "Lenin gazed at Russia through Kalinin's eyes as one gazes in a crystal.'' Tolerates religion. His old, religious mother is violently anti-Bolshevik. No one thinks of assassinating him because he is one of the "folks...
...referred to the speech of Secretary of State Hughes in which he said: "We want to help . . . (but) . . . Russia's hope lies in Russia's action." Mr. Hughes' speech has created a deep impression in Japan among the leaders, many of whom wish to base their Russian policy upon that of the United States. For the present Japan will not recognize Russia...
...creed of the Russian communists, according to an interviewer of Litvinof, is as follows: "We do not believe that the church can serve two masters. We must choose between the Communist Party and the Church...