Word: vasilievich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Dewey was setting out with his huge casualness "to have a look at Russia." Of course the news of his impending visit had elicited from Soviet Commissar of Education Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky a formal invitation and an expression of enthusiasm that the Second Confucius was coming. Comrade Lunacharsky is a Red, but he knows his Deweys. A dynamo of energy, he not only directs the Commissariat (Ministry) for Education, but writes plays, is President of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant...
...Allies had previously put in the field against Red Russia. One army struck North from Estonia under General Nikolai Nicholaievich Yudenich, who in 1919 advanced until he could see the spires of Petrograd, only to be driven back. A second White Army and Government was dominated by Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak. In 1919 he advanced from Siberia until he was within 450 miles of Moscow. Later, when he was driven back, he signed a ukase transferring the Siberian Government over which he held sway to a third White Commander, General Anton Deniken, whose armies then dominated Southern Russia...