Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scholar, lawyer, publicist, Anton Smetona threw his very soul into a fight for Lithuania against the Russian autocracy. But, hounded by Tsarist secret police, branded by many as a conspirator, blackened as an opportunist, he stood no chance against the arrayed might of Imperial Russia?not until...
...Persians, however, may send an unlimited amount of goods at privileged rates of tariff and transport, to the fairs of Nizhniy-Novgorod and Baku, provided that they buy not less than 85% in Russian goods at the fairs. The balance may be recovered by Persia in foreign currencies at official rates...
Significance. About a year ago Russia made a drastic cut in her imports from Persia, which were then about 60,000,000 rubles annually, while Soviet exports amounted to only 20,000,000 rubles. Persia then boycotted Russian goods, threatened to build a railway from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, in order to "make them independent of the Russian market." Both sides suffered in the economic conflict and AH Ghuli Khan, one-time Ambassador at Moscow, was sent early in the year to negotiate the above treaty...
...Asia. The domain of the early Tatar khans, in the Altai mountains of Thibet and the Gobi Desert, is now the archaeological province of General Peter K. Kozlov, Russian geographer and digger persistent. Twenty years ago he found the dead city of Khara-Khoto whose last khan, Hara-Tzyan-Tzyun, buried 80 carloads of silver in a profound well before being wiped out by an Imperial Chinese army in the 13th Century. Digger Kozlov frequently revisits the region for further data. His latest expedition set out from Moscow last spring...
...THEATRE IN LIFE?Nicolas Evreinov?Brentano ($3.50). M. Evreinov's Russian ingenuity has excelled in such varied activities as circus performing, archaeology, law, novels, history and flute-playing, but his chief passion and reputation are in the theatre. This book, a more or less formal attempt to enunciate a philosophy, elaborates Shakespeare's dictum about all the world being a stage. Poet Robert Burns would have been interested, for M. Evreinov touches also on the problem of seeing oneself as seen by others. "The Theatre of Oneself," says M. Evreinov, is conducted by every human being in all those acts...