Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...established by Treaty of Union signed in 1922 by the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic (Russia proper, Turkestan, Kirghiz, Tartar, Bashkir, Mountain Republic, Daghestan, Crimea, Votiak, Mari, Chuvash, German Volga areas, the Far Eastern region), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, the White Russian S S R. and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal S. R. The Treaty was ratified last January...
Slating the Soviet Government for trying to kill off intellectualism in Russia, Le Figaro (Paris journal) said in part: "As if this were not enough, students suspected of Menshevism* have been expelled and finally, under compulsion by fanatical women, including the wife of Lenin and Mme. Kamenev, it was decided to make students pass an examination on public development. One question was 'Who is the head of the Third International ?'† One unfortunate student answered 'Rosa Luxembourg' and was expelled. A woman medical student who was unable to give the exact definition of the Central Executive...
...recognition of Soviet Russia by China and of China by Russia (TIME, June 9 et seq.) naturally specified for the delivery of the Russian Legation in the Legation quarter of Peking, and the Russian Consulates in various parts of China...
...fact that the Russian Legation had been raised to an Embassy, which would thus give the Soviet representative precedence over those of the Great Powers who are merely Ministers...
...fact that the Legation quarter is governed by the foreign representatives resident therein. The Chinese Government was technically not within its rights in making any promises to the Soviet Government without first obtaining the sanction of the foreign Ministers...