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Large deposits of gold were reported to have been found in Siberia. The Soviet Government sent out a technical commission to verify the news...
Vodka bootlegging in Siberia was said to be thriving despite severe restrictions imposed by the Soviet authorities. Peasants do the bootlegging for the most part, because they find that they can get more for their grain by using it for distilling the illicit beverage than by selling it to the Government. According to the Pravda, Moscow journal, grain to the value of more than $3,000,000 was used last year in the manufacture of vodka...
...anti-revolutionary movement broke out in Siberia. It was quelled by the Bolsheviki at a cost of the lives of 600 men, women and children...
...Lenin's Last Will" is said by those who know to contain instructions for the annihilation of Nepmen, profiteers under the New Economic Policy (NEP), instituted by Lenin himself. A great drive against Nepmen was in progress and 50,000 people were earmarked for deportation to Siberia...
...disappointed. The story of the great Marxian's creation of the Bolshevist Party, of his tremendous single-handed fight to swing its other leaders to his extreme radicalism, and of his leadership of the party through his long years of exile in Siberia, during the war, in Switzerland, and back to Russia, where he overthrew the provisional government of Kerensky and negotiated the now famous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, is all narrated in a vivid and convincing manner. The author gives Lenin's political career in full, quoting dozens of records and letters and telling scores of illuminating anecdotes...