Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slommsky, the new conductor o the Orchestra, studied at St. Petersburg Conservatory. During the Russian Revolution he went to France where he continued his tudies. There he met Serge Koussevitsky, now conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and through his agency came to this country to teach in the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, New York. At present be is conducting the Boston Chamber Orchestra and accompanying visiting artists on the piano...
...CRIMSON reporter yesterday John Haynes Homes, pastor of the Community Church of New York City, who has recently visited Russia and studied conditions there, out lined what he believes the world owes to the Bolsheviki. He pointed out that although a similarity exists between the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution in that the two are the greatest liberating events in human history, the latter contains no incidents to compare with the horror of the Reign of Terror. It is due to the lack of perspective that people generally think that nothing exceeds the moral depravity and terror...
...declared that the world owed a three told debt to the Bolsheviki "First," he said, "they saved Russia as an organized society contrary to what most people believe". The crash had already come, peasants had revolted, murdered land owners, and seized land, the Russian army had dissolved, railroads had stopped and factories had closed the return to say agery had begun before the Bolsheviki finally came on the scene. In a ter months the Bolsheviki established the Soviet Government, spread a Red army all over Russia and Siberia, and righted all the evils. This is the greatest single achievement...
...Russia today, as in no other country in the world, the workers are on top. The only citizens are laborers, the only wealth is work, and a new type of society has been organized that is going to possess the future. As the French Revolution brought political democracy, the Russian Revolution is bringing economic democracy. We owe to the Bolsheviki the creation of the first economic democracy in history...
...spineless young men who scoff at military training under the influence of instructors whose teaching tends to leave the nation defenseless and at the mercy of aggressive foreign foes, or of the worse offices of internal Communists and other followers of the philosophy of the leaders of the Russian state...