Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such was Yalta when the late, great Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and his party of Yankee innocents abroad arrived to visit Tsar Alexander II at his summer estate, Livadia. In the same expanse of gardens and palaces, Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill had their second meeting. Clemens said of the setting...
...Three former Regents: Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III and uncle of the boy King Simeon II; ex-Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian expansionist, who preferred making history to teaching it; Lieut. General Nikola Mikhoff, who had held the mistaken belief that the German Army was invincible...
...Bulgaria a revolutionary tribunal passed a more severe sentence. A scoffing court found Prince Cyril, ex-Regent and brother of the late Tsar Boris III, guilty of collaboration with the Axis, condemned him to death...
...Social Democratic Labor Party (1903) into a minority (Mensheviks) and a majority (Bolsheviks), Stalin followed Lenin. But times were hard. The Bolsheviks were only a handful of zealots. Their work was hampered by comrades who eked out lean livings as revolutionists by spying in their spare time for the Tsar's police. ("Thanks to Zhitomirsky's treachery," wrote Lenin's wife indignantly, "Comrade Kamo was caught with a suitcase containing dynamite.") There was little money with which to carry on. Stalin, always practical, undertook to make the Tsar finance the revolution. He organized a series of profitable...
...life was that he had achieved the world's greatest political revolution. The most stubborn fact of Stalin's was that he achieved the world's greatest economic revolution. It was a long way-the span of a crucial epoch of world history-from the Tsar's jails, police files and fingerprints to revolutionary triumph and apotheosis...