Word: grigori
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Executive Committee (Komintern) were elected Alexis I. Rykov, also President of the Council of People's Commissaries and head of the Soviet Cabinet; Grigori Zinoviev, Ivan Stalin, Leo Kamenev, Nikolai Bucharin, editor of the Pravda, official Moscow journal ; William Dunn of Montana and some others...
...Grigori Zinoviev became President of the Committee for the second time; the names of War Lord Trotzky and Karl Radek, two erstwhile powers of Communism, were dropped. This is obviously in retaliation for both Trot-ky's and Radek's criticism of the Communist Party, but it is exceedingly doubtful if the former, who is said to be popular in Russia, can be ousted from the Committee with impunity...
Most interest, however, attaches itself to the reappointment of Grigori Zinoviev to the Presidency of the Executive Committee. What is this Committee? What manner of man is Zinoviev? The Executive Committee of the International is, of course, the governing body of Communism. Theoretically it is separated from the Soviet Government, but actually it is the most important branch of that body, controlling foreign policy and spending Government funds. Its prime function is the propagation of Communism throughout the world-a call to the world proletariat to throw off the capitalist yoke, overthrow the existing government, proclaim a dictatorship. "Workers...
...directs this policy and possibly has more to say about it than anyone else is Ovsei Grigori Aronovitch Radomyslski, alias Grigori Zinoviev...