Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best remembered of the heroes who sprang from the people to rid the new Russia of the White armies. A born leader of men, a man of magnificent courage and character, yet uneducated and scarcely lettered, Chapayev was thought to need direction by the high Soviet command. Thus, Commissar Furmanov is detailed to consolidate the army's gains for the Bolsheviks. Making fine use of the delightful Russian sense of humor, the director has told much in the clashes between the quiet Furmanov and the fiery, jealous, and naively conceited Chapayev. But in contrast to his simple peasant mind...
...Moscow as Consul General went George Hanson when U. S. recognition of Russia promised to open up vast trade possibilities. Three weeks ago that glittering bubble burst (TIME,, Feb. 11). Following week, as a diplomatic suggestion that Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff had played him false, President Roosevelt pared the staff of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, closed the Consulate...
...controlled The Peasants' Gazette, the State's mouthpiece to the vast majority of Russia's population and the only newsorgan most Soviet farmers ever see. For twelve long years Hearstian Yakovlev has been stuffing Russian peasants with exciting stories. Today he is more than Commissar of Agriculture, his job in 1929-33. Promotion has carried him to the Soviet agricultural top: Chief of the Agricultural Department of the All-Union Communist Party which is above the State. From this eminence last week Comrade Yakovlev stuffed the third Ail-Union Collective Farm Congress in Moscow...
...grubby street in Lodz, Poland, Lord Beaverbrook's stunt-loving London Daily Express tracked down a grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping...
...Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.). To replace Friend Kirov in the Politbureau of the Party ("Soviet Big Ten"), Dictator Stalin put forward his hard-boiled nephew. Comrade Anastasy Mikoyan. In 1919 British troops occupying the city of Baku, Russia's oil metropolis, seized 26 self-styled "Bolshevik Commissars," shot all except smart Stalin's smart nephew who managed to escape. Last week the Soviet Congress acclaimed him as definitely a new Big Shot. His extra-Politbureau job: Food Commissar...