Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, a little man tugged delightedly at his large ears-a sign that he was greatly pleased, puzzled or vexed. He was the great Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, the friend of Japan, the implacable foe of Soviet Russia, overlord by right of might throughout all Manchuria. He was pleased because his son, General Chang Hsueh-liang, had just entered Peking at the head of a victorious army...
From Mukden, Super -Tuchun Chang Tso-lin telegraphed a demand that the Soviet Ambassador to China, M. Karakhan, should immediately quit Peking...
...Russia the movement was started before the Revolution in 1917 and has received and added impetus under the Soviet regime. The cooperative plan has also been found highly useful in Denmark...
...teaching of elementary sociology is considered the most important of the three chief elements in Soviet education. The communist leaders of Russia believe that their only hope of overcoming the unsocial instincts and personal greed of the peasants is through education. Their general plan of training thus comprises the following stages: first the child must be taken at a very early age and his social instincts fostered, then he is taught some practical science, and finally is given some idea of the theories of socialism...
Another noteworthy characteristic of Russ an education is that it is frankly altruistic. Lenin said that the most harmful influence among the human beings of the present age is the muddle of superstitions called religion. This sentiment is fully carried out in the Soviet instruction, which seeks completely to eradicate from the minds of the masses the religious feelings which still are lodged in them...