tsarist
- a of or relating to or characteristic of a czar
- Russian leaders are most often removed in palace coups; even the tsarist system was once described as an "autocracy tempered by assassination.
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- Why Siberia Could Be Russia's Secret Economic Weapon
Once infamous as a place of exile and no-return during the Tsarist and then Stalinist eras, Siberia is being touted as a beacon of light by the Russian government as it looks east, rather than west, for growth potential.
June 18, 2013 - CNBC - Siberia: Russia's Secret Economic Weapon?
Once infamous as a place of exile and no-return during the Tsarist and then Stalinist eras, Siberia is being touted as a beacon of light by the Russian government as it looks east, rather than west, for ...
June 18, 2013 - CNBC via Yahoo! Finance - Carnegie to present ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
With a cast of nearly 50 and a production staff of nearly 20, Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players are working feverishly in preparation for the June 28 opening of “Fiddler On The Roof.” The musical is taken from the book “Tevye and His Daughters,” written by Sholem Aleichem, and tells the story of a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia in 1905.
June 17, 2013 - Cleburne Times-Review
Quotes
- Vladimir Putin in Taipei Times
Lenin said he didn't care about Russia. What was important for him was achieving a world socialist system. The Russian people didn't expect this. They were deceived,Putin said. "Russia today has no intention of repeating the tsarist... - Vitaly Ginzburg in The Moscow Times
That won't happen because the church itself doesn't want it,Ginzburg said. "The church knows what that led to in tsarist Russia. It wants to penetrate everywhere and influence everything, but it does not want to bear any responsibility for... - Marvin Kalb in The Moscow Times
It is not just a post-Soviet phenomenon but has been typical of the Soviet and tsarist eras as well,said Marvin Kalb, a lecturer of public policy at Harvard University.