Word: rykov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov, who bears the titles of President of the Union Council of People's Commissaries and Chairman of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic Cabinet, asseverated that Russia's economic pulse was strong and steady, which, he claimed, was certain indication of Russia's ultimate recovery...
Perhaps more than any man in Russia, Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov is the mainstay of the Bolshevik regime. When Lenin was alive, Rykov was always a great power. Lenin supplied the dynamic energy, the eloquence, the courage to say: "This thing must be done." Rykov, engineer and economist, wielded a static power, the patience and knowledge which enabled him to say: "This is the way it can be done...
...Rykov's position in Russia approximates that of Calvin Coolidge in the U. S. He is to a large extent the Chief Executive of Soviet Russia. The fact that little is ever heard of him is merely a silent indication of his character. He works quietly, despises the methods and noise of the demagogue, is exceedingly simple and direct in all his movements. "He is the kind of man who, however violently one may disagree with him, does not stir personal animosity. He never ridicules, never denounces, never even flares up. He seems as incapable of deep hate...
...Moscow, 10,000 Bolshevik children assembled before the jet black tomb of Lenin to take the "pledge of Leninism" or, in other words, to promise to support the dead Russian leader's principles. MM. Rykov, Trotzky, Kamenev, Bukharin?all Bolshecrats?spoke to the children. When War Lord Trotzky asked them if they were ready to sustain the doctrines, they replied: "We are always ready...