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ALEXEI IVANOVITCH RYKOV, 46, is the President of the Union Council of People's Commissars, or, roughly speaking, Prime Minister of Russia, the post that was the late Lenin's. Born a peasant, he took a conspicuous part in the revolution. He, mild-mannered, is often seen slouching along the streets to & from the Kremlin in Moscow. He talks fluently in a pleasant manner, is always polite, extremely reserved, but he is neither orator nor scholar, as are many of his comrades. His forte is his presence of mind...
...Romanov Tsars." Said he: "They were depraved and drunken despots. . . . Peter the Great personally decapitated many victims of his bestiality and buried others alive. . . . All the Romanovs were incurable epileptics. . . . Alexander III was a fat, greasy hippopotamus. . . ." During the Health Commissioner's harangue, Dictator Stalin, Premier Rykov and 200 other prominent communists sat gravely before Dr. Semashko in the Imperial Opera House, applauded him heartily...
Premier Alexei Rykov said informally. "The Soviet Government has not sent and will not send any agents to Nicaragua to conduct anti-United States propaganda. . . . The Third International [world Communist propaganda bureau with headquarters in Moscow] appears to be so far from conducting such activities that I was amused to find the other day that only two out of the five principal officials in charge had any definite idea where Nicaragua was. . . . The statement of Mr. Kellogg contains naive untruths. . . . He is only following the example of the British Tories who counterfeited a letter supposed to have been written...
Docile, the Conference began by re-electing to the Praesidium, or "Standing Committee" of the Party, Joseph Stalin, "political boss of Soviet Russia,". and 36 of his henchmen-among them Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, War Minister K. E. Voroshilov, and Vice President Nikolai Bukharin of the Third International...
...reducing to political vassalage or inconsequence no less than six of Lenin's most potent disciples: Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Sokolnikov, Lashe-vich and Kamenev. The "new triumvirate" are: 1) Joseph Dzhugashvili "Stalin"- political "boss" par excellence, nominally only Secretary General of the Communist Party; 2) Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissars (i. e. "Premier"). 3) B. B. Quibe-schev, successor to the late Felix E. Dzerzhinsky (TIME, Aug. 2) as chairman of the Supreme Economic Council. The settled policy of these men is to transform the "pure" Communist state, as conceived by Lenin...