Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Read with disquiet an announcement by the International Miners' Federation, in convention at London last week, that $2,100,000 has been contributed by the Soviet government, to date, toward furtherance of the British Coal Strike...
...than his own prison-bleached forehead. He became convinced that the "Cheka" was no longer needed, saw to it that several of his incurably bloodthirsty agents were quietly murdered, "for the ultimate good and safety of the state," and focused his own sleepless energies on the economic problems of Soviet government...
...Minister) for Transport and later president of the Supreme Economic Council, a post which he held at the time of his death. To Dzerzhinsky-in the opinion of virtually all foreign correspondents at Moscow-belongs almost the sole credit for having inculcated a spirit kindred to "efficiency" into sluggard Soviet industry. Working in sympathy with Trotzsky-also "a practical man"-he has striven literally day and night to combat the visionary, theoretical Marxism which is the chief curse of the Soviets...
Significance. It may be postulated that M. Dzerzhinsky's logical and politic scheme of industrial re-organization will encounter all but insuperable resistance at its fulcrums, the tousled heads of Soviet industrial managers. Despatches from Moscow report that the average tourist should allow a week in which to accomplish the formality of obtaining a pass to view the Kremlin. Similar to this are the often "well meaning" delays which are notorious in Soviet industry and were deemed characteristic of the Tsarol regime. Up to the present time no large group of Russians has ever been brought to abandon...
...Dzerzhinsky's remarks are most notable for their implication that the present Soviet regime persists in its announced determination not to increase the burdens of the peasantry. Firmly entrenched against this view are the "economic opposition," a not unimportant group inspired by Professor Alexander Preobajensky and countenanced by Trotsky who demand that the peasantry support the re-organization of the urban proletariat...