Word: tsarism
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...staged during the same period by Activist Stalin. The stolen money, in both cases was used to finance the Party of Revolution-which meant to Lenin and to Stalin the Communist Party. Said Lenin to Pilsudski about this time. "You are our companion in arms until the fall of Tsarism but after that you will turn your back on us.'' Said bristling Pilsudski to a group of Socialists long after the World War from which Poland emerged free: "You accuse me of having betrayed Socialism. It is this way, gentlemen: We rode together in a streetcar marked Socialism...
There was very little security 27 years ago for a middle-class Jewish family named Burschstein who lived in Bielostok, Russia (now Poland). Harried by fear of Tsarism and pogroms, they had a son who belonged to a Socialist fraternity. Their eleven-year-old daughter Rosa was already being watched suspiciously by government officials, for she carried messages between her brother and his friends. Then one day came the dreaded cry: Pogrom! Rosa, with only the clothes she wore and a small satchel, was hurriedly packed off to Italy in the company of a cousin. There she grew...
...progeny of great Genghis Khan. The wily White general sets him up as a puppet ruler to insure peace amongst the surly Mongols, but the hunter, confused and bewildered at first, suddenly discerns his enemies' intentions, goes Mongol. The picture closes with the "storm" (1918 Red revolt against Tsarism) gathering fury over the wild plains of Central Asia...
...Speaker Longworth, Senator Harrison said: "He is approaching more nearly the tsarism of Speaker Reed than any speaker since those days. . . .* Is the Speaker praised . . . because his organization strangles and is now willing to kill the farm relief measure...
This paradoxical change in a man whose earlier work dealt exhaustively with harlots, drunkards and rat infested cellars, is partially explained by the enthusiastic recognition which the Soviet State has given him as an oldtime enemy of Tsarism...