Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Joseph Stalin "more babies" is Russia's policy as it is of Germany, Italy, Japan (see p. 18). That the policy has incidental uses to Russian women appeared last week. Moscow newsorgans reported that a Soviet schoolteacher convicted of treason had "masked her treason for five years by the cunning ruse of having a child annually...
PROMETHEUS AND THE BOLSHEVIKS-John Lehmann-Knopf ($3.75) Impressionistic travel book on semitropical Russian Georgia, with emphasis on its writers, painters, the Marjhanishvili Theatre, together with random flashbacks of Georgia's turbulent history, a biographical sketch of its most famous native son, Stalin...
...decree the executive and legislative functions, having the judicial right of pardon. But the Praesidium, once a roster of Russia's most distinguished Old Bolsheviks, now has a majority of New Bolsheviks, many so new in the Dictator's favor that they are quite unknown to the Russian people. Only one list of 37 names was offered as candidates for the Praesidium. An announcement was made in passing that this list had been prepared by the "Council of Elders"-an imaginary body which Moscow correspondents had never heard of, presumably a euphemism for Stalin...
Some weeks ago Big Red Planner Mezhlauk quietly disappeared and so did his brother Ivan, a member of the Higher School Commission. Another Big Red who disappeared during 1937 was the Russian Commissar for Finance Grigoriy Grinko. Not one of the 1,143 deputies of the Supreme Soviet who elected the new Council asked any questions last week about Mezhlauk, about Grinko, about any of the other Big Reds who continue to disappear, put away by Stalin's Secret Political Police. They also asked no questions about the Government's policies or plans...
...BULLET IN THE BALLET-Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon-Crime Club ($2). Two murders set to music on a London stage, during a performance of Petronshka, with all members of the company under suspicion, Scotland Yard blundering among light-footed, light-headed Russian dancers. Excellent...