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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, 63, Deputy Premier Minister of Foreign Affairs, who will run the cold war. Born in the European Urals, son of a store clerk, high school educated, joined the Bolsheviks in 1906. Met Stalin in 1912 when both edited an illegal sheet called Pravda, thereafter was Stalin's ever-loyal lieutenant until his death. Elected a Polit buro alternate in 1921, aged 31, the youngest ever. Premier 1930 to 1941 Minister 1939 to 1949. Uninspired, but crafty and stubborn negotiator. Irritated underlings call him Iron Rump, Lenin called him "an incurable dumb bell" and "the best file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: THE OTHER FOUR | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Died. Victor Mikhailovich Chernov, 78, president of Russia's freely elected Constituent Assembly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Patriarch of Russian emigres in the U.S., bearded, silver-maned Chernov helped found the Social Revolutionary Party in 1900, became, for a few momentous weeks in 1917, Minister of Agriculture under Kerensky. He was elected president of the Assembly, which Lenin's soldiers dispersed on Jan. 18, 1918 after one all-night meeting. Chernov was driven into hiding, exile and a lifelong struggle against the Bolshevik dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 28, 1952 | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

CalTech suspects that Dr. Pauling's theory was excoriated chiefly for nationalistic reasons. The Russians have 19th Century Chemist Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov, whom they would like to credit with the discovery of the nature of chemical bonds. The work of Pauling and other Western chemists may stand in the way of this rewriting of scientific history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Resonance Heresy | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Died. Max Werner (real name: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Schifrin), 49, Russian-born military commentator* (Military Strength of the Powers, 1939; Attack Can Win in 1943); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Werner fled successively from the Ukraine to Germany to France to the U.S. (in 1940), wrote a dogmatic column that ran in some 90 U.S. newspapers, ranging from New York's leftist Compass to the Kansas City Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...around to the subject of painting, but artists could take a hint. On the heels of Zhdanov's blast against "bourgeois decadence" in Soviet music (TIME, Feb. 23), 25 members of the Union of Soviet Artists met in Moscow. Puckery, wavy-haired Union Chairman Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov read the party decree on music. The Moscow Bolshevik reported: "A lively discussion. Various painters pointed out that painters were plagued by the same disease as the composers. They spoke about the remnants of formalism, falsely understood novelty, and neglect of the best traditions of Russian classic painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Taking No Chances | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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