Word: tsarists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thirty five million in 1927, although 68,000,000 enjoy the franchise and the population totals 143,000,000. Only "productive workers" over 18 and soldiers & sailors have the right to vote. Disenfranchised are employers, clericals of all religions, and affiliates of the fallen Tsarist Regime...
...Gifted with a pliant temperament, she got on excellently well with the Marshal's first wife, the late Maria Litinska Pilsudska, who was her husband's first collaborator in the secret and dangerous work of putting forth a Socialist newspaper Robotnik (The Workman) under the pre-War Tsarist régime in Poland...
Russia's railroads were mortgaged by the Tsarist regime to fight Russia's battles. Many a U. S. citizen bought the bonds. Having overthrown the Tsarist regime, the Soviet repudiated all Tsarist debts. U. S. citizens sighed and put their Russian rail-road bonds away expecting never to think of them again except as quaint keepsakes...
...foreign trade turnover increased from $199,000,000 in 1922-23 to about $800,000,000 during the past fiscal year, with a favorable balance of $30,000,000. Before the War the trade turnover of the Tsarist empire...
...first arrested in 1898 at the age of 19; Tsarist persecution followed. Escaping from Siberia in 1902, he remained abroad until the 1905 revolution broke out. He then returned to Russia, only to be arrested as the Chairman of the Workers' Committee. Railroaded to Siberia, he managed to escape and for ten years lived in foreign lands, coming...