Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full of Bronsteins and Rosenfelds. Among these kinsmen some soon appeared who helped Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky find a suitable three-room flat on Vyse Avenue, The Bronx, enabled them to buy $200 worth of furniture on the installment plan by signing as endorsers their promise to pay. The local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting his sharp eye quickly took the measure of Manhattan, his sharper pen promptly produced this editorial in the most brilliant Bronstein vein...
...Great Exile had, but the Soviet Government and its extremely obedient and vocal Russian Press gave no sign of having minded the following remarks by the Great Exile last week in Mexico city: "Soviet bureaucracy is sabotaging the Spanish Revolution in order not to frighten the French bourgeoisie! It does this first by preventing the proletariat in Spain from seizing power, secondly it does not give Spain the support it could give if Russia really intended to help the proletariat. Soviet bureaucracy is aiding Spain only just enough to save its face with the workers of the world...
...treaty pledges-as did President Roosevelt-that Soviet diplomats, consuls and such will not in practice work to foment the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" to which every Communist is pledged in theory. Mr. Roosevelt went even further, exacting from Comrade Stalin a pledge not to have on Russian soil any organization or persons engaged in attempting to overthrow the U. S. Government, including even U. S. citizens so attempting...
Lola Kinel returned from a visit to the U. S. just in time to see the first revolution in Petrograd. It was just like a Russian Easter. "It was grand. All one had to do to feel tremendously exhilarated was to go out on the streets." With the Bolshevik Revolution everything got more serious. Lola was an anti-Bolshevik. She turned down a chance to become one of Trotsky's secretaries, got a job instead on the Russian Daily News, only English daily paper in Petrograd, and the last counter-revolutionary paper to be suppressed. She fell in love...
When that blew up, she landed a job as secretary to Isadora Duncan. With aging Isadora and her young husband Sergei Essenine, Russian poet, she flitted from hotel to resort for temperamental months. Because Isadora could speak only pidgin Russian and Essenine could speak no English, Lola's principal function was to act as interpreter, often in uncomfortably intimate scenes. When one day Essenine got drunk and insisted on going out for a walk by himself to get away from women, there was a fierce quarrel. Lola was made the scapegoat, lost that...