Word: bolshevik
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...trade unions has "withered away," that the Kremlin has reduced them to the "cultural-educational role" of explaining its decrees to Soviet workers. In 1933, the Cabinet Commissariat for Labor was abolished and its functions transferred to the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. Its chief, famed Old Bolshevik Mikhail Tomsky, had maintained that "the trade unions should have an existence entirely separate and independent of the structure of the State." This doctrine clearly was not in harmony with the utter supremacy of Dictator Stalin, and the secret police began investigating Old Tomsky. whose friends in Russia and abroad...
...French Republic today the Minister of the Interior, commanding the police and charged with maintaining public order, has the beard of a bushy Bolshevik and the name Rene Marx Dormoy. The beard is of Socialist Dormoy's own choosing but, while M. Dormoy says that he stands for "militant Marxism," he regrets that his Socialist father went so far as to tag him "Marx" after Karl Marx. Communism as today conceived in Russia is, according to the Minister of the Interior, "a despicable compromise with the principles of The Revolution." Himself no compromiser, Bachelor Dormoy once had half...
...Commissar Yakovleva, 52, is an Old Bolshevik, a veteran of the bloody fruitless days of 1905, who was exiled to Siberia under the Tsar. After the 1917 revolution she did valiant service in the ruthless Cheka, the pre-Ogpu secret police, gradually rose to be Vice Commissar for Education and finally Russia's first and only female Finance Commissar...
...total of more than $30,000,000 worth of automotive machinery, plans, parts, cars and tractors. Today the main streets of Moscow are just beginning to present a traffic problem, thanks to several thousand little cars closely resembling Ford sedans, all Soviet manufactured under the management of Old Bolshevik Dybets-kicked last week out of his job as Director of the All-Union Motor Car and Tractor Administration...
Although this Administration has been lagging behind the Plan, Old Bolshevik Dybets recently made supreme and successful efforts to raise production at Russia's largest motor works, the Molotov Plant at Gorky. It is now nearly up to planned production, is turning out daily 400 trucks and 82 little sedans of 4-cylinder Ford type. But while this substantial success at the Molotov Plant may please and flatter Soviet Premier Molotov, for whom the factory was named, Soviet Dictator Stalin has been anything but pleased by such results as Old Bolshevik Dybets has been able to achieve...