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...Author. Alexey Maximovich Pyeshkov (Gorki) is 65. If he had had his own way he would have been dead at 19, when he tried to round off a rag-picking childhood and 15 years of poverty-pinched wandering, by a bullet through his lung. An operation saved him. He began to write for provincial newspapers, under the name Maxim Gorki (from gor'kii, "the bitter one"), then sociological novels and plays. He joined the Social Democrats, later the Bolshevist wing, was arrested on Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg. Exiled till 1913, he lived in Capri, corresponding...
...hailed by editors as a step in the breakdown of Communism. Steel Man Stalin had his propagandists out in force last week to deny this imputation. In London, chief Stalin interpreter was none other than Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin. Two years ago Bukharin, a member of the Politburo, horse-faced Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, and Michael Tomsky called down the Steel Man's wrath as members of the "right heretics" who refused to cooperate whole heartedly in the Five-Year Plan. Last week found a chastened, subdued Nicolai Bukharin in London stroking a red beard, humbly explaining the new policies...
...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...