Word: tsarists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral side, Russia's Lubimov pointed out that Tsarist Russia exported nearly twice as much wheat as her nearest competitor, and that no one called this morally wrong. Today Soviet Russia cannot by the wildest excess of dumping export as much wheat as her largest competitor, which, of course, is Canada.* Therefore, in Moscow's view, whatever Soviet Russia does or can do in the way of wheat exportation, she will be not less, but more generous to her competitors than Tsarist Russia...
Diplomats Browbeaten. Urging prompt acceptance of his pact "in principle" M. Litvinov said bluntly: "If you want Soviet orders you cannot object to Soviet exports. The Soviet Union is not the only country exporting raw materials. . . . The exports of Tsarist Russia were far greater than those of Soviet Russia, yet they were not condemned. . . . We are only starting out to regain our place in the world markets. ... I am here to offer a pledge that the Soviet Union will adhere to the principle of peaceful co-existence at this given stage of history...
...author gives a rapid but excellent picture of the Russian people under the Tsarist regime. This is done with a skill which would make the book worth reading if nothing further were said. Next, the Bolsheviks are followed through their various vicissitudes with outlines of how these troubles were handled. Fortunately, the writer never allows himself to become enmeshed in the labyrinth of Soviet political structure but only considers the various commissions which wield the real power. For this reason his exposition is unusually lucid even if rudimentary...
...everything Clim makes his cold and dubious way: the university, journalism, a law office. He marries Varvara, mainly for intellectual reasons, and cares very little when her love is chilled into seeking warmth elsewhere. Clim is really a parlor liberal, but even parlor liberals were looked at askance in Tsarist Russia, and he several times runs foul of the police, once goes to jail. Not from any excessive love for his fellow-man but because he has a head on his shoulders Clim begins to side with the revolutionaries. No longer just a bystander, he begins to feel the pull...
Baron Ponsonby, rising to defend the MacDonald Government, demanded of the Bishop of Durham, 67, and of Lord Newton, 74, whether in 1908 they "denounced the British Government then in power for remaining silent when the report to the Russian Duma gave authentic details of cruelty under the Tsarist Regime? . . . Evidence in the present situation is much more vague and unreliable than in 1908. . . . We have grave suspicions concerning labor conditions in Russia...