Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftist Spain, thus shaded for the victory by Captain Hart, is as brilliantly unorthodox as some of the captain's own theories (he thinks the War's greatest general was T. E. Lawrence). Its history is the most exciting record of men at arms since the Russian Revolution. The outgrowth of one regiment, it owes its present effectiveness to the stress of one battle, the ability of one politician and a handful of generals, three of them Spanish...
...Generals. Not so confusing as it at first appears is the fact that Spanish Communists and the Soviet officials assisting them are doing everything in their power to prevent Leftist Spain from going too Red. Communism, by Steel Man Stalin's present definition, is primarily for Russian consumption. A Fascist Spain would be a tragedy for Moscow, but alienating France and Britain would be a tragedy too. To suit Stalin, the social revolution in Spain must wait or move slowly until threats of war to the Soviet Union from Germany and Japan are ended. Among the busiest of Russians...
...played a much greater part in the victories of the People's Army than the 5,000-odd Soviet Red Army soldiers now in Spain, are changed every few months, operate mostly under false names, keep in the background as much as possible. Many have not been of Russian nationality, one is known to have remarked with a grin, "I have five perfectly valid passports, one American." Veteran New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews names as non-Spanish Leftist Generals Kleber, Lukacs. De Gorieff (also called Van Rosen), Gall, Walter and an anti-Nazi German , General so leery...
...subjects are offered in the History Department, American Colonial and Russian History, the latter outlined by Micheal Karpovich, assistant professor of history. Only course in philosophy is headed by William E. Becking '01 Alford Professor of Natural Religion, and entitled "The Philosophy of the Modern State...
...Ideas Underlying the Russian Revolution" will be the subject of a radio lecture tonight by Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, at 8 o'clock, over the non-commercial shortwave station WIXAL, of Boston, on 6.04 megacycles...