Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief Soviet representatives on the new Executive Council of the International, as chosen last week, are MM. Zinoviev, Stalin and Bukharin. A representative was also chosen from each nation. To Charles Ruthenberg, U.S. communist, was entrusted the task of "representing" not only the U.S. and Canada but Japan as well...
...League Delegate. The People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (Foreign Minister Tchitcherin) sent out a 3,000-word statement to the press last week, the nub of which was that Soviet Russia will not send a delegate to the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Geneva, now scheduled for May 18. The statement wandered far afield and declared among other things that the recent League fiasco had led to "a weakening of coherence among Western European powers" which "clears a path for the growing American economic penetration of Europe, after which American political penetration is but a step...
Simultaneously the Ukrainian Soviet authorities announced that private persons will hereafter be allowed to erect small factories under their own exclusive superintendence. Heretofore such "liberty of capital" has been abhorred as flat Communist heresy...
...whole administrative system of Soviet Russia is made difficult to understand by the deliberate care with which perfectly well understood relationships are disguised under new and strange names. Thus M. Rykov is not, literally speaking, "Premier" but "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars," who perform exactly the function of ministers in an ordinary cabinet...
...connections obtained him a position in the U.S. State Department, which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor" of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Married, he abides in his native city of brotherly love...