Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British-French-Russian military talks got more & more press notice, Professor Riley got less & less. Russia's witty Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov received the British and French delegates with sparkling good will. They dined and wined each other. The Russians took their visitors to the annual "aviation holiday." Everyone was in great good humor; every one thought the alliance was all but accomplished...
...least desirable jobs in Russia is that of the People's Commissar for Agriculture. Among his many nightmares: Supposing ignorant peasants in Siberia leave their shiny new tractors out in the snow? Supposing collective farmers begin to act like rugged individualists in the Ukraine? In these or many other possible cases, his probable fate will be that of a Fascist-Trotskyist wrecker. Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov, latest to gamble his life in this advanced post, took over the Commissariat last autumn. According to the Moscow Pravda he immediately set about "eradicating" his predecessor Robert Indrikovich Eikhe's "left-overs...
...Last May Commissar Benediktov started out to get these counter-revolutionary individualists. Thousands of commissioners, many of whom could not tell a hawk from a handsaw, are now swarming over the U. S. S. R., measuring each peasant garden. Abuses, declared Benediktov, will be rectified. All far-from-home plots will be replaced by land adjacent to villages, where officials can keep an eye on them. To millions of hard-working peasants this meant the loss of painfully wrought improvements. And some collective-farm managers, with a characteristically Russian excess of zeal, have confiscated all private plots, legal...
...entrusted its mission to a general; England, with the greater fleet, sent an admiral. Russia, eager to be shown that the two democracies can back up their word if they choose to keep it, appointed its highest officers to receive the mission. Russia's chief delegate was Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov...
...break in the progress of the negotiations came when Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff was abruptly retired from his post. But by May 22 authoritative sources declared that the peace front was rapidly becoming a fact, and in five days Great Britain was announced as bowing to Soviet terms, burying her old prejudices, expressing confidence that Russia would agree. Six weeks later negotiations were still going...