Word: tsardom
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...completely shut down by the atheist Soviets in 1930 after the Bolsheviks overturned the tsardom...
...historical parallels are obvious. Lenin's overthrow of the 400-year-old tsardom was not enough, Schwarz seems to say; he must come back again to erase the habit of servility from his people's souls. Only a Lancelot, he implies, can end the Russian people's submission to dictators who promise them peace and quiet...
...them joined in a superunion: the Combined Theatrical Amusement Crafts. Its announced purpose: to corral the rest of the 48. Its president is Vincent Jacobi of the stagehands' Theatrical Protective Union No. 1. But observers wondered whether behind the scenes ambitious George Browne might be trying for tsardom again...
...seemed to crave martyrdom. They refused to register homesteads, furnish vital statistics, send children to school, although they had promised to do so when entering Canada and were exempt from military service. They protested by ingrained habit long after oppression disappeared. They could not comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having burdened Canada with them. Said their former friends: "The sect ... is self-centred, self-righteous, and intolerant." "No more impenetrable group...
...major Bolshevik objective pursued without success ever since the fall of Tsardom: to float a fat Soviet loan abroad and get Bolshevik bonds regularly listed on an exchange outside Russia...