Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religion. Similarly the statesmen of Soviet Russia repose their faith in Leninism. The embalmed corpses of Dr. Sun and Nikolai Lenin are preserved in their glass-topped cases near Peking and at Moscow; and are periodically adored as the elements from which sprang, respectively, Chinese Nationalism and Russian Sovietism...
...Russia of 1914. Smart folk will note Moscow's Savoy Hotel, Leningrad's Hotel d' Europe, and that taxis have a fixed tariff in Moscow but must be bargained for in Leningrad. Map fiends will revel in hundreds of renamed towns, and the heretofore seldom seen Russian spelling of the nation's name: Soyus Sotsialisticheskekh Sovietskikh Respublik ("Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"). Tourists will pore over well-thought-out-schedules for "Seeing Moscow in Eight Days" or Leningrad in seven...
Strictly presenting the official Soviet viewpoint are three more International books: 1) The Illustrated History of the Russian Revolution, Vol. I ($2.75), a striking picture book, but so biased that it does not contain a single photograph of famed Leon Trotsky, who is now exiled and disgraced; 2) Leninism by Josef Stalin ($2.50), the doctrines of the "Father of Soviet Russia" expounded by the present Dictator; and 3) The New Theatre and Cinema of Soviet Russia ($6), a vivid mingling of Spartan text and exuberant pictures, displaying the only world-known and world-admired Soviet...
Swedes were glad: The Roerichs descend from Swedes who a thousand years ago founded the Russian empire...
Artists were glad: Nicholas Roerich has shown them a way of becoming successful. Returned to St. Petersburg from Paris he wanted to found a school. He hobnobbed with intellectuals; joined societies, shouted out his art theories, got an audience. He became first president of the first Russian art review Mir Iskusstva (Artistic World), which Serge Diaghilev edited. He designed the scenery for Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, for Stanislavsky's production of Peer Gynt, for Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. For this last one he also wrote the libretto. Then came the Russian revolutions...