Word: kalinin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...environment in which they live savors of crude satisfaction. Each chapter holds a mirror to one attitude of Soviet Government and reflects the image of one leader. Future generations will talk of the founders of the new Russia; not merely of Lenin and Trotsky, but also of Kalinin, king of peasants; of Lenin's five subordinates, who as his adoring disciples worked with him for 20 years; of Rykov, the most popular man in Russia; of Alexandra Kallontai, only woman member of the Cabinet; of Father Tikon, "clinging to the splendor of gold and jewels"; of Lunacharsky...
...Ekaterina Kalinin, wife of Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin, peasant President of the Soviet Republic, is coming to the United States on a visit. It is understood that the United States Government has ac- corded her the necessary permission and has cabled the Consuls at Riga and Reval to vise her passports. Mme. Kalinin insists that no political capital will be made out of her visit. She is coming in response to the invitation of the American Committee for Relief of Russian Children to make a two months' tour of the United States, as representative of the Central Committee...
Significant is it that neither Lenin, Trotsky, nor Kalinin, leaders of Soviet Russia, who are supposed to sympathize heart and soul with the aims of the Communist Internationale, have been attending the meetings of the Internationale where they have been expected to speak. This apparent lack of interest has been explained on the ground that the press of official business has kept them away...