Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under whom Sun fought as a general only last year) and Chang have momentarily the upper hand in China. But what will happen in a year, a month, a week? Can Chang and Wu resist the great encircling movement financed by Soviet Russia, the teeth of which are Feng's armies in the north and the Cantonese Bolsheviks in the south...
...Russia's game or settle down to fortify his stronghold in Mongolia. That the Cantonese of the extreme South expect Bolshevik loyalty from Feng of the extreme North was proved last week when he was elected in absentia to a seat on the Executive Council of the Cantonese Soviet...
...Boris Kraevsky, Soviet Commercial Agent to South America, cabled jubilantly last week to Moscow. He had just secured the first de jure recognition of Soviet Russia by a South American state- Uruguay. To newsgatherers he said: "My mission consists purely in establishing commercial relations between the U. S. S. R. (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics: Russia) and South America. . . . Yes, I have installed a central office in Buenos Aires. . . . During the past eight months our purchases of Uruguayan products have totaled...
...hundred and twelve million U. S. inhabitants acknowledge the executive shepherdage of Calvin Coolidge, refuse to "recognize" the 139 million Soviet Russians over whom Joseph Stalin has reared himself a despot. M. Stalin ("Mr. Steel") exerts, simply as Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic...
...Previously a Tsarol Russian province. Now the Socialist Soviet Republic of Georgia...