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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...
Leon Trotzky, né Bronstein, was born 50 years ago, son of bourgeois Jewish parents. In Odessa, he received an excellent high school and university education, aged 17, he became a revolutionary, working for the downfall of the Tsarist regime. Like all Russian revolutionaries, he spent long terms in prison and longer terms in exile in a dozen different countries, including the U. S., where he lived for a time in the Bronx, New York City...
Scholar, lawyer, publicist, Anton Smetona threw his very soul into a fight for Lithuania against the Russian autocracy. But, hounded by Tsarist secret police, branded by many as a conspirator, blackened as an opportunist, he stood no chance against the arrayed might of Imperial Russia?not until...