Word: alexei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people are too many to keep Quiet, it was soon learned that Comrade Mezhlauk had dropped some strong hints as to the next Moscow Old Bolshevik trial, intimating that the Ogpu's efforts to wring confessions are being "strenuously resisted" by the two star prisoners, onetime Soviet Premier Alexei Rykov and onetime Soviet No. 1 Editor Nikolai Bukharin, both finely bearded Old Bolsheviks. Smooth-shaven New Bolshevik Mezhlauk smoothly voiced indignation, but not at third-degree methods. "It is hard to imagine a more atrocious spectacle," said he, "than Bukharin and Rykov, who have betrayed the interests...
DARKNESS AND DAWN-Alexei Tolstoi -Longmans, Green...
...every man is king and nobody is a millionaire, but successful writers are sitting pretty. Next to Maxim Gorky the Soviet author with the most thronelike seat is Alexei Tolstoi. Distantly related to the late great Leo (Anna Karenina), he enjoys a national success surpassing his great namesake...
Tolstoi was a renegade nobleman who preached against his class. Classless Alexei shares with Gorky and Stalin the biggest book sales in Russia today. Writers in Russia may make as much in royalties as the traffic will bear, but they must not run off the rails. U. S. readers could see by Author Tolstoi's Darkness and Dawn that he is in no danger of jumping the track...
Until an illiterate Russian coal miner named Alexei Stakhanov developed the "speedup" technique which made him dear to Five-Year Plan officials and brought orders from Joseph Stalin that workers throughout Russia must increase their output (TIME, Dec. 16), the most favored Soviet class was the Young Communists for whom nothing in Russia was supposed to be too good...