Word: alexey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political boss" (General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party), has just thrown off this mask, assumed public office for the first time during his dictatorship, and proved who is absolute master of some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210 unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. But Herr Hitler's flash in the pan has at least temporarily been...
...Poland's Pilsudski and fully as great as that of Italy's Mussolini, has maintained the pose of holding no office whatever in the Soviet Government. He dropped this pose last week. Further to strengthen the position of his lieutenant, "Prime Minister" Vyacheslav Molotov, successor to ousted Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29), Dictator Stalin became officially a member of the Council of Labor & Defense, one of three interlocking councils that run the Soviet Government. At the same time "Prime Minister" Molotov, considered by dispassionate critics a far less able man than the deposed Rykov, received a new assistant...
Most important head to fall was that of lantern-jawed, saturnine Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, President of the Union Council of People's Commissars, or Prime Minister of the Soviet Union. Month after month Rykov's removal has been rumored, because of his alleged "Right'' tendencies. Always he has managed to hang on, because of his extreme popularity with Moscow crowds. He was ousted last week, not only from the presidency of the Union Council and of the Council of Labor & Defense, but also from his membership in the powerful Political Bureau of the Party. Succeeding...
...Author. Maxim Gorki (real name: Alexey Maximovitch Pyeshkoff) is 62, gaunt, wrinkled, hollow-eyed, with drooping moustaches. He wears: baggy trousers, blue workman's shirt, a blue sweater. A poor boy, he had to earn his own living when he was nine; he has been worker in a bootshop, apprentice to a mechanical draughtsman, cook's assistant, lawyer's clerk, tramp, laborer, baker. Once he tried to commit suicide; the bullet is still in his body. Though he took no part in the Revolution, for he believed the masses were not ready...
Maxim Gorki (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov), 62, son of an upholsterer, long-time associate of social pariahs, wrote ATa Due in 1903 when his short stories had already made him a world figure and his literary friend Anton Chekhov (see p. 64 and below) had challenged him to write a good play. He is the only great prerevolutionary Russian man-of-letters who enjoys the cordiality of Soviet authorities. His latest novels are infused with Soviet doctrine. For his health, he spends the winters in Italy. He once shocked his hosts in the U. S. when it was discovered that...