THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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... BEGINNING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. BLOODY DAY IN ST PETERSBURG, long thre►tened revolution in Bemis opened oft Sunday in St Petersburg with a peace masa mission to the Ozer asking for reforms, the light of the Little lather, and massacre i.f unarmed ...
... A RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. The wild but cleansing waters of revolution are fast flowing in upon the only European nation which has hitherto been a bulwark against their encroachments. Ever and anon, as the Continental States were swept by the advancing tide ...
... The wry footnote to Arthur Ransome’s involvement in the Russian Revolution was written during one of his visits to Lewis, when the tiny motor boat Astrid put into Stornoway Harbour and tied up in the Lazy Corner. It had come from Sweden, and on board ...
... Boris Pasternak’s novel ‘“Deoctor Zhivago. This film, which runs for over three hours tells us of the effect of thf Russian Revolution on a small group of people and of the changes which it brings about in them. This award winnin!z film has an impressive ...
... BYE-WITNESS. The words of two recent eye•witnesses in can be quoted. Professor P. Sorokin, the eminent economist, states The Russian revolution has brought no amelioration or improvement in the lot of the people. Extraordinary contrasts of luxury and abject poverty ...
... he has again i Di nust compelled to leave Russia, not, as has ~~ ws asserted, because he felt that his role | st to Russian revolution had been played, but to the danger of being seized at any niom Government executioners, or, in other + fi of being cut ...
... white-buttoned belles of the herring barrels brought to me glad memories of 1919. 1 was stationed at Archangel during the Russian Revolution, in the ice boats of the Royal Navy. .~ When we were on our way home to Portsmouth our boilers failed off Yarmouth, ...
... whom he In a manner pledged himself to the trial of this conquest, that were be now avowedly to renounce it, a complete Russian revolution would be the consequence. With two such powerful motives operating at once one timid, and at the time ambitious Monarch ...
... Lewis on a purely private mission, gathering material for a children’s book, a wry footnote 1o his experience in the Russian Revolution was written on the pier at Stornoway. At the Lazy Corner, to be precise. And perhaps symbolical. A corner which derives ...
... palates, even in war time, they let the consignment go. The herring might just as well have rotted on the pier. The Russian Revolution came along, and they were never paid for. At political meetings in Stornoway, well into the ‘twenties, portly fish-curers ...
... been a year of many memorable events. Abroad, it h,.s seen the close of the bloody Eastern War, and the birth of the Russian Revolution. At home, it has smiled in its dying days at Mr Balfour's hurried moonlight flitting. It has seen the collapse of ...