Word: tsarists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abruptly J. Stalin demanded more tolerance for Russia's pariah class, her "bourgeois intellectuals," the professors, industrial technicians & such left over from tsarist days, some of whom have been shot after "propaganda trials" (TIME, Dec. 8, 15; March...
Three times Revolutionist Vladimir Zenzinov was sent to Siberia by the Tsarist Government. Twice he escaped; the third time he served his full four-year term. In this book he tells about...
...chorus of the official Fascist anthem. But the accompanying music, though certainly no worse than that of many another patriotic song, is what Variety calls "umpa umpa stuff." It is more singable, more lively than "The Star-Spangled Banner" but immeasurably less musical than "Die Wacht Am Rhein," the Tsarist anthem, or the Haydn tune which the Austrian Empire took for its national hymn. It was natural, then, that the whole world of music should have risen in arms during the last month because a Fascist official demanded that Arturo Toscanini play "Giovinezza" at a memorial concert in Bologna devoted...
...traveling salesman known as "Mr. Harrison." If he was not Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov in disguise a great many people who claim to have known Max then are liars. Like other revolutionists, he kept his secrets to himself. But he was a friend of Lenin, also an exile from Tsarist Russia, and after the revolution Dictator Lenin appointed him first Soviet representative in London...
Back in Moscow, able Max became assistant to the great George Tchitcherin, a former noble and Tsarist diplomat!' who was Soviet Foreign Commissar from 1920 onward for ten years, gradually growing sicker, turning over more & more of his cares to Max, who became Foreign Commissar last year...