Word: rykov
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...chonicle of materialist promises deferred. The first TIME story on Russia in Volume I, Number 1, March 3, 1923, reported a famine in the Soviet Union and U.S. help in feeding the hungry. The first TIME cover story about a Russian, on July 14, 1924, dealt with Aleksei Rykov, President of the Soviet People's Commissars, who had just issued one of those typical, promissory reports filled with soaring but questionable statistics. This week's cover article on Leonid Brezhnev, President of the Soviet Union, is TIME'S 70th on a Russian subject. It was written...
VISHINSKY: Accused Rykov, tell us, when did your underground conspiratorial activities against the Soviet government begin...
...RYKOV: Essentially they began in 1928 . . . I actively fought the policy of the party and the Soviet government, and chiefly the policy of the party towards the peasantry...
...RYKOV...
...jeering jaguar" who achieved U.N. notoriety (1947-54) for his vitriolic attacks on the U.S., made his reputation as a prosecuting attorney in a theatrical series of purge trials of Bolshevik leaders in Moscow in 1936-38. Among the 54 men cross-examined by Vishinsky was one ex-Premier (Rykov), several Vice Premiers, two ex-chiefs of the Communist International, two ex-chiefs of the political police, nearly all the Soviet ambassadors in Europe and Asia, and all the members of Lenin's old Politburo except Chief Defendant Trotsky (in exile) and Joseph Stalin, who brought the charges...