Word: shvernik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kalinin's successor is gruff, bustling, 57-year-old Vice President Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, who will now function both as President of the Union and as an alternate member of the policymaking Politburo. The Soviet Union's longtime trade-union chief, he is primarily the workers' man, where Kalinin was the peasants' champion. The son of a Leningrad janitor, he was the only member of the All-Union Soviet of Trades Unions Secretariat to survive the purge of 1937. As Russian leaders go, he has a wide horizon: he made two wartime excursions to trade-union...
When Sir Walter arrived in Moscow last week the papers called him "Tovarish." Theatergoers stood up to cheer when they saw Trade Union Chief Shvernik steer him into a box to watch a performance of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina...
Soviet Trade Union Chief Nikolai Shvernik (chairman), Communist Party Secretary (and No. 2 Bolshevik) Andrei Zhdanov, Writer Alexei Tolstoy,* Aviatrix Valentina Grizodubova. It was the first time in 25 years that a high church official had found himself in such company...
Last December Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik went to Britain with 13 of the comrade trade unionists who listen so well at home. They inspected munitions plants, factories and shipyards, everywhere cheered by British workmen, everywhere given the fullest cooperation. Winding up his tour last week Comrade Shvernik said the British workers were fine but the British system not so good. He charged that there was "an incorrect attitude in some factories regarding the initiative of working men and women on their rationalizing proposals; unwillingness to listen to the voice of working men and women and their shop stewards; and even...
This off his chest, Comrade Shvernik and his 13 comrade commandos prepared for the trip home, pleased that their invasion of Britain had been so well received...