Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject. In the past, the University speakers have been at a disadvantage with their older and more experienced English opponents, who have known their subject thoroughly weeks ahead and have been able to devote their attention to delivery. The Council has tentatively secured the subject of "Recognition of Soviet Russia", which although old involves an accurate knowledge of international law and which has not been settled by this country. If a more timely question arises, it may be used...
...course of her existence, England has as stimulated every thing from Normans to gin, and quietly turned reforms inside out and revolutions upside down. Her latest achievement has been to invite four Bolshevists of the Soviet delegation in London to King Geroge's levee...
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...
...latest decree of the Soviet Government of Russia, Which eliminates nearly one hundred thousand students of non-proletarian origin from high schools and colleges, seems to be an unfortunate continuation of the Communist policy of destroying the bourgeois class. In aiming to provide educational facilities for students in the lower walks of life, the Soviet authorities are working with a beneficent intent, but in persisting in elevating one class at the expense of another, their wisdom is more than doubtful. The Communists have apparently discovered, however, that one of the best ways to keep opponents out of power...
...possession of every citizen, in actual practise the every citizen, in actual practise the question resolves itself into one of utility; those first entitled to receive instruction are the classes best able to apply it to the service of the community. Although living up to its ideals, the Soviet government hardly seems to be acting wisely in depriving a large number of its citizens, and particularly those best fitted to receive them, of the advantage of an education. Instead of accentuating the class struggle, they might build more permanently by conciliating the bourgeois and inaugurating a policy of assimilation rather...