Word: tsarist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis inspired a burst of reported reports via Stockholm that the Russians might soon sue for peace. As if in answer, the Russians revealed that last winter they had rounded up and executed scores of Nazi parachute spies, had crushed out cells of fifth columnists-"disaffected youths, former Tsarist officials and civil servants"-in Leningrad...
Neither were as good or as popular as his First; so next he turned to satiric ballet and opera. His Lady Macbeth of Mzensk is a kind of musical Sunday supplement about small-town life in Tsarist Russia...
...Russian Baptists are Biblical fundamentalists; they sprang from German Protestantism. Unlike surviving fragments of the Orthodox Church, the Baptists, a young sect, had no social standing in Tsarist Russia, are consequently not held accountable for Tsarist infamy. According to Russian Theologian George P. Fedotov, Visiting Fellow at Yale, they have made a great appeal to Communist youth, "who have a deep spiritual thirst...
...Communists." Unquestionably they are rebels. Unquestionably some are Jews, some are Marxist Communists of one shade or another. Many more, probably, are Balkan "Communists," which usually means partisans of the country as against the city, the farmer as against the businessman. These people in general have Slavic, pro-Russian (Tsarist or Stalinist) leanings. The United Nations press has often referred to Mihailovich's forces as Chetniks -the name of a Serbian patriotic body which long fought guerrilla wars against Serbia's oppressors. Doubtless many are Chetniks or their descendants. But Mi-hailovich's army is best described...
...this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. The play is the Russian comedy, "Inspector General" by Nicolai Gogol. A simple story of mistaken identity--one of the most satisfactory of comic devices--provides the basis for two hours of continual merriment. In a small city of Tsarist Russia the corrupt officials are visited by an Imperial inspector with highly unorthodox ideas of reform. He spends his time accepting bribes and making promises, attempting to seduce both the Mayor's wife and daughter simultaneously as well as getting delightfully stewed. Such conduct is naturally pleasing to the worried...