Word: tsarist
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...away with-all land belongs to the State. The State has a monopoly in foreign trade, the peasant sells at an absurd price to the Government and the Government profiteers outrageously. The author goes on to say-that there are fewer elementary schools-now than there were under the Tsarist regime, that there is a great increase in crime among children. And them there is the appalling spectacle of the: child-prostitute. In other words, the Bolsheviki have risked ruining Russia in order to put theories to the test. Now they are: trying to build up what they have destroyed...
...opening sessions of the conference were marked with much plain speaking from Premier Ramsay Mac-Donald. Old Tsarist Treaties were relegated to subcommittees for inspection, but no important decisions were or could be arrived at. Cessation of Bolshevik propaganda and recognition of debts and private property by the Soviet: Government were the chief items on the agenda...
Admiral Behrens, Russion delegate, attracted much attention. A typical aristocrat of the Tsarist regime, speaking French fluently, he showed great interest in the League and in the Conference...
...recognition of Grand Duke Cyril, son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, as heir to the Imperial Russian Throne by a family council in Paris (TIME, Dec. 10), was disputed in conclave by Tsarist emigrés in London...
...dramatists are equal to any in the world, that the Soviet authorities in Moscow would suppress public performances of Alexis Tolstoy's play The Golden Book of Love, a light comedy which features Catherine the Great. It was felt that the Empress, being at the head of a Tsarist State, would be too much for the Bolsheviki...