Compared to Prussian junkers or the landed nobility in czarist Russia, the Chinese landlord was a very backward man. 同普鲁士的容克地主和沙皇俄国的贵族地主比起来,中国地主是非常落后的。
The countries that took greatest advantage of China were Japan and czarist Russia-- and at certain times and concerning certain questions, the Soviet Union. 从中国得利最大的,则是两个国家,一个是日本,一个是沙俄,在一定时期一定问题上也包括苏联。
czarist
[ adj ] of or relating to or characteristic of a czar <adj.pert>
Authorities detained at least 240 demonstrators in two cities who likened communism to czarist tyranny, and officials jammed U.S.-financed Radio Liberty on Monday as it reported on the protests, activists said.
Here are pictures of thatched huts in the Ukraine, a homburg-hatted Petersburg merchant, two dandies from the Yiddish theater and a bemedaled officer in the czarist army, the only Jew to become one in the entire 19th century.
The crowd spread out at the Raclawice Battlefield near Krakow in southern Poland, where peasant legions armed with scythes and commanded by Tadeusz Kosciuszko defeated a czarist army in 1794.
The historic heart of the old czarist capital is crumbling and can be saved only by giving it to the people who live there, says a young archaeologist who has become an influential politician.
Country houses, called dachas, in the Soviet Union range from small cabin-like structures to opulent mansions built as summer homes in czarist Russia.
"Specialists" may now view documents of the czarist secret police, jails and courts, Tass said.
Since before the 1917 Russian Revolution, Vladimir I. Lenin demanded a unified party covering the entire territory of the czarist empire.
Commodity exchanges abounded, with 82 in 1914, according to Thomas C. Owen, a Louisiana State University historian writing a book about companies in czarist Russia.
A smaller Moscow stock exchange existed near Red Square in a building now occupied by the Chamber of Commerce, and there were more than 100 commodities exchanges in czarist Russia.
More commonly, though, the Central Asians co-exist with the large European populations that began flowing southward with the establishment of czarist power in the 19th century.