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Georgi or Grigori...
...different from the crowd is a laudable ambition, but not at the expense of a fact. Every publication in the world, including Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, calls the commander of the First White Russian Army Marshal Grigori Zhukov. TIME alone insists on Georgi...
...Last week Archbishop Grigori of Saratov and Stalingrad announced that a long-standing rumor is about to come true: Moscow's Orthodox Theological Institute will open "shortly." It will be Russia's first theological seminary since 1917. Students must be over 18, will get a fiveyear, tuition-free course. Required course: the Constitution of the U.S.S.R...
...rate, Lenin's proposal could scarcely be carried out against Stalin's strong organization. During this and the subsequent crucial period the chief members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the Party's ruling body, were Stalin, Trotsky, Grigori Zinoviev, Leo Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky-seven little bottles hanging on the wall. In 1928 Trotsky was exiled from the U.S.S.R., in 1936 Zinoviev and Kamenev were tried for treason, found guilty, shot. Tomsky attended the trial, committed suicide. In 1938 Rykov and Bukharin went before the firing squad...
Novelist Maxim Gorky was a good friend of Stalin, but perhaps his dearest friends were Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigori Konstantinovich Ordjonkidze and Soviet Executive, Committee Secretary Avel Yenukidze. Ordjonkidze died "of a heart attack," Yenukidze before a firing squad. Defense Commissar Voroshilov has enjoyed the master's friendship and lived longer than anybody. Best pal of late years is said to be Leningrad Party Boss Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, regarded as Stalin's heir. Last week rumors flew thick & fast that Comrade Zhdanov was on the skids. His birthday testimonial to Stalin failed to see the light...