Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviets, of Five-Year Plans and collective farms, of propaganda campaigns and celebrations over the building of blast furnaces-it has become a potential enemy or ally for a gigantic struggle in the making. Imperceptibly, as the menace of war loomed bigger, outside interest in new ways of Russian life ebbed, interest in the Red Army grew...
...years that followed, while Russian economy climbed slowly back to its pre-War normal, the Party he addressed plunged into turmoil unequaled in political history. Bolsheviks fought Whites, but they also fought Czechs, English, Germans, French, Americans, Japanese, Letts, Mongols, Poles, on 14 fronts and for more than four years-fought with inadequate arms, starvation rations, an exhausted population. They signed with Germany a treaty as punishing as the Treaty of Versailles, lost a quarter of their manufactures. Said Lenin, "I would give up Petrograd for a breathing spell of 20 days." They fought the armies of Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich...
...Five-Year Plans represented a greater rate of increase. They doubled Russia's industrial stature, made her an industrial power, left her self-sufficient in production of oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, cellulose, cotton, super phosphates. But it set a vast segment of the Russian proletariat moving from factory to factory, from village to city, in one of the great tidal movements of humanity that Tolstoy long ago described as the ceaseless wanderings of workmen over the earth. It ended uniform wages. Breakdowns, delays, confusions, led to experiments in management, industrial shock troopers, new incentives for labor, trials...
...Frank Nugent of the New York Times, however, the picture has been called "The most complete, impartial, and intelligent film history of the Russian revolution thus far shown...
...Charles Eliot Norton poetry professorship (music, art, letters), Harvard appointed high-domed Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, established a Ralph Waldo Emerson poetry fellowship (first incumbent: Robert Frost...