Word: yakov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were left to guess-probably no more than that the Russian spy clique is little by little openly assuming some trappings of the power it has wielded for years. In effect an Ogpu Cabinet had been created alongside the State's Cabinet. The new Cabinet of Yagoda: Commissar Yakov S. Agranov of the so-called Ogpu Secret Section devoted to unmasking and destroying Enemies of the Regime. On his hurry call to Leningrad after a Communist assassinated Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934), industrious Ogpuer Agranov had 66 men and five women shot...
Davidov's major error consists in advocating that one Yakov Lukich be made manager of the collective. Since Yakov is an excellent farmer, interested in improvements in agricultural technique, he would have made a good manager had it not been for the fact that he had been in the White army and was now sheltering counter-revolutionary officers in his home. Nagulnov urges that the world revolution begin at home, and puts his theory into practice by giving up his wife, studying English and considering, most of his neighbors counter-revolutionists. Yakov builds up the collective because...
...clear directives, Bolshevik henchmen expect as part of the system to be publicly blamed by the Dictator for his occasional mistakes, then zealously follow his "new directives." Last week in the tall-towered Kremlin the 1935 spring directives for collective farms were taken on the chin by Comrade Yakov Yakovlev, the Party's Director of Agriculture...
Imagine sombrero-wearing William Randolph Hearst editing with Communist zeal the Great American Farm Newspaper and you begin to have some faint idea of Comrade Yakov Arkadevich Yakovlev...