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Irrespective of his health status in his final days, Lenin was already losing much of his power to Joseph Stalin. [13] Alexei Rykov succeeded Lenin as chairman of the Sovnarkom, and although he was de jure the most powerful person in the country, in fact, all power was concentrated in the hands of the "troika" – the union of three influential ...
From left to right: Stalin, Alexei Rykov, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev in 1925. All three later fell out with Stalin and were executed during the Great Purge . Upon Lenin's death in January 1924, [ 192 ] Stalin took charge of the funeral and was a pallbearer. [ 193 ]
The majority of these appointees were of either peasant or working class origin. Mikhail Suslov, Alexei Kosygin, and Brezhnev are prime examples of men appointed in the aftermath of Stalin's Great Purge. [32] The average age of the Politburo's members was 58 years in 1961, and 71 in 1981.
Aleksei Yakovlevich Kapler (also Alexei, Russian: Алексей Яковлевич Каплер, born Lazar Yankelevich Kapler; 28 September 1903 – 11 September 1979) was a prominent Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and writer.
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov [a] (25 February 1881 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician and statesman, most prominent as premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. [2] He was one of the accused in Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purge.
The biography delves into Joseph Stalin's formative years, exploring his transformation from a poverty-stricken, idealistic youth to a cunning and formidable figure in Russian history. Suny examines Stalin's early life in the Caucasus, tracing his evolution from a Georgian nationalist to a ruthless political operative within the Bolshevik ...
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
Celebration of May 1 in Moscow 1926. From left: Mikhail Tomsky, Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Kalinin. He was elected to the Central Committee in March 1919, to its Orgburo in 1921 and to the Politburo in April 1922. Tomsky was an ally of Nikolai Bukharin and Alexey Rykov, who led the moderate (or right) wing of the Communist Party in the 1920s.