Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is a family of nations, Russia and England are like brothers who seldom speak, fight when they look friendly, fight somebody else when they seem most at odds. If the new agreement is signed in an atmosphere of overwhelming suspicion, it will be no new thing in Anglo-Russian relations. When both were in monarchic Holy Alliance, they intrigued against each other, sabotaged each other's trade, angled for republican U. S. support. When Tsar Nicholas I proposed that they divide up Turkey in the middle of the last century, England fought Russia as Turkey's ally...
...fewer cultural relations than the U. S. and Russia. Strictly according to precedent were last week's negotiations: upsets, reversals of policy, war and the threat of war, aid to each other's enemies, suspicion, distrust and downright hatred culminating in iron-clad alliances have marked British-Russian relations for more than a century...
...January 1934 he formed another government only a few days before the Stavisky scandal flared into bloody riots. Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a Russian Jew who emigrated as a boy to France, had long been mixed up with shady financial deals. In 1932 he had gained control of the semi-official pawnshop ("Credit Municipal") of Bayonne. By arranging to have the shop's jewels overvalued, by getting a letter of endorsement from the Minister of Labor, by persuading even the Mayor and Deputy of Bayonne to "cooperate," Stavisky was able to sell quantities of Credit Municipal bonds many times greater...
With Manchukuo (Japanese) and Mongolian (Russian) troops skirmishing again on the Soviet-protected Outer Mongolian border, with Japan still refusing to evacuate her troops from the International Settlement at Kulangsu, with the Japanese authorities getting bolder and bolder in their demands for control of the Shanghai International Settlement, it began to appear that the Japanese were becoming desperate about the war still dragging on in China, just as in 1917 the Germans began to be desperate enough to torpedo neutral shipping again. A Shanghai spokesman hinted, however, that U. S. ships would escape the search-&-seizure methods applied to ships...
Russia has no strike troubles (workers who strike have a way of disappearing the same night), but the Russian peasant is the Kremlin's chronic headache. His food is needed to feed the proletariat, his sons are needed for the Red Army. Even collective farms have failed to turn the mulish muzhik into a village Bolshevik. Wily as any Communist, the peasants long ago wrung from the Kremlin permission to till personal plots on collective farms, sell their produce in the open market...