Word: tsarist
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...Tsarist partisanship. Attacks against Communists, " calling them robbers and murderers...
...reported that the Soviet secret police are seeking out people concerned with anti-revolutionist verdicts during the Tsarist regime. These men, when found, are tried, usually found guilty and executed. The case of Stevraki is reported to be the first such case to be made public...
...Brief notes and excerpts: Of Anatol Vassilievitch Lunacharsky, Minister of Education: " ' Illiteracy,' he told me once, 'is the great curse of Russia; we must fight illiteracy like the plague.' . . . Has left off composing sonnets to fight ignorance, superstition, drunkenness, prejudice, disease, dirt." Bitterly attacked. Saved Tsarist statues from the mob. Heated art galleries during fuel famines. Assisted by wives of Soviet leaders. Sans peur et sans reproche, the "gentleman" of the Revolution. Of Gregory Vassilievitch Tchitcherin, Foreign Minister, aristocrat: "Living alone in a barren room on the top floor of the Foreign Office...