Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government of the Russian Soviet Republic ("Russia Proper") appointed, last week, an extraordinary "Grain Dictator" and requested the other state governments of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ("Asiatic & European Russia") to appoint similar officials...
...reason for so drastic an appointment is, of course, that the Russian peasantry still seem disposed to raise only enough grain for their own needs, thus leaving the urban population facing a perpetual grain shortage...
More significant to science was the news that such experiments are conducted at the Mid-Asiatic University at remote and romantic Tashkent, in the wilderness east of Lake Aral and north of the Hindu Kush. Before the Russian 1917 Revolution only eight Russian cities had universities. The Soviets have set up a dozen more in districts which they control. All are staffed by men who, radiating Communistic culture, are intent on obtaining scientific proofs for their materialistic theories...
...carpet the major issue of contemporary Russia-the issue between Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin and the great Communist whom he has exiled (TIME, Jan. 23, 30), famed Leon Trotsky, creator of the Red Army. Stalin stands for the more reactionary and Trotsky for the more revolutionary elements among Russian Communists. Stalin and Trotsky both claim to be the "intellectual successor" to the late Father of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Lenin, whose words are still the guiding oracles of Soviet policy. Stalin has triumphed over Trotsky and his chief followers, expelling them from the Communist party and banishing them from Soviet...
...Dance (Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell)-Good acting on the subject of the Russian revolution. Somewhat sentimental.* The Magnificent Flirt (Florence Vidor) -Modern, silken, original, with a Parisian setting...