Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What were the Bolsheviks up to? Had Moscow deliberately tried to wreck the new Monetary Peace during its first hours by a Russian bear raid on sterling? In the excited timbre of Secretary Morgenthau's voice when he first spoke there was perhaps a hint of suspicion of this sort, but most U. S. Treasury officials soon calmed down to a more comfortable theory. After all the Moscow comrades who run the Soviet State Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European...
There is much that is obscure and troublesome in the new tri-partite agreement between France, Britain, and the United Stats. It was, for example, confusing and irrelevent for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to drag the Russian herring across the trail and speak of a "raid" upon the pound when the Soviet Bank was merely carrying on a pre-arranged commercial transaction of minor proportions. And neither is it especially clarifying to approach the agreement from the political side, to glory in the "offensive" upon dictatorships by democratic countries...
...radical for it, was indicted on scores of counts in America after he went to Russia and worked vigorously for the Revolution. Besides hundreds of articles on the Mexican and Great Wars, poems, librettos, he wrote a book "Ton Days That Shook the World," the story of the Russian Revolution. He was Soviet Russia's first ambassador to the United States, came home and spent his time in courts fighting sedition charges, returned to Russia and died of typhoid fever there in 1920 and was buried under the Kremlin...
Slavic 1a--Elementary Russian--has become Slavic...
Slavic 1b--Classic Russian Literature--has become Slavic...