Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the enormous influence in all branches of the Soviet government which tousle-haired Leon Trotsky exercised at the height of his power, his official position was merely that of Commissar for War. Since tousle-haired Trotsky's ignominious exile last year (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928), Russia's Commissars for War have been notable for their reticence. By order of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin they have been spared all unnecessary publicity...
...industry. Russian oil is produced by about six Russian companies and one Japanese company with a Russian concession. The 1928 output was twelve million metric tons (26,455,200,000 lb.) Distribution and selling is handled by a government syndicate, headed by G. I. Sokolnikov. Oilman Sokolnikov, as Soviet Commissar for Finance, was famed as the financier who put Russian currency on a gold basis...
...tainted and unmentionable plan was and is, of course, the one presented by Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. When he first went to Geneva (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927) he said that Soviet Russia was ready to completely disarm within one year, if all other nations would do likewise. Since then, plump, indefatigable Comrade Litvinov, who looks like a squirrel with a nut in either cheek, has been slowly learning that whatever plan he may offer will be pigeonholed, at least for some time to come...
...United States feels tight," said Soviet War Commissar Clemence Voroshilov, last week, haranguing a Leningrad conference of The Party (Communist). "I mean by tight," continued Comrade Voroshilov, "exactly what I say! Grown gigantic and bloated with capital like a giant blood sausage, the United States feels tight within its frontiers...
Thenceforward the professor's misery grows more and more Tolstoyan until, as the grand climax, Commissar of Education Anatole Lunacharsky appears upon the film in his official capacity, raises up the professor from lowest depths, and places him in a Moscow laboratory where, among congenial atheists, he can complete his "Great Experiment...