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Power. Joseph Stalin now rules as the undisputed dictator of Soviet Russia. During the past twelve-month he has demonstrated his control of the Communist Party and the Government by reducing to political vassalage or inconsequence no less than six of Lenin's most potent disciples: Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Sokolnikov, Lashe-vich and Kamenev. The "new triumvirate" are: 1) Joseph Dzhugashvili "Stalin"- political "boss" par excellence, nominally only Secretary General of the Communist Party; 2) Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissars (i. e. "Premier"). 3) B. B. Quibe-schev, successor to the late...
...religious situation in Russia, the speaker said that a person professing religion of any sort is ineligible for the Communst party. "However," he went on, "the churches hold well attended services and it was my impression that many Communists go to church on the quiet:" He remarked that the Lenin-cult may well be taking the place of a religion with many of the peasantry, describing the processions of peasants that file through the Lenin mausoleum at Moscow to look at the embalmed body of the Soviet leader...
...Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic name of Stalin, installed him in the office which he has made the focus of all Russia, the Secretariat of the Communist Party. Last week M. Stalin ordered dropped from the Cabinet of Premier Rykoff-of which...
Dzerzhinsky, starved of Bolshevist theory, self-goaded to half-mad labors, became, when the Red Revolution set him free, the most practical, most tireless, most in- corruptible henchman of Lenin...
...stood by her husband's bier with their son, 15, while the body lay in state for 24 hours in Trade Union House, Moscow. Though exhausted, she retained strength to follow the coffin to Red Square, where it was interred not far from the black marble tomb of Lenin...