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Alex Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars, was reported ill and confined to his bed. For some time he has been in poor health, having, two years ago, spent several months in Germany undergoing treatment for stomach trouble...
Later it was announced that Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov, a Russian, had been elected President of the Council of Commissars (Premier) in Lenin's place...
Another significant appointment was that of M. Dzerzhinsky, creator and chief of the Cheka, who became head of the Supreme Council of National Economy in the place of M. Rykov...
President Rykov, aged 53, is a former Vice Chairman of the Council of Commissars and head of the S. C. N. E. Born at Nijni Novgorod of peasant parents, he early forsook the land and managed to give himself a university education. Unlike most Bolsheviki, he has not been much abroad; like most Bolsheviki, he has served terms of imprisonment, has been an exile in Siberia. In 1899 he joined the Social Democrat Party, before it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, actively plotted against the Tsar...
...Trotzky, Rykov and Stalin have a free fight for the dictatorship. Trotzky, remembering his military strategy, waits until the other two have killed themselves...