Word: novgorod
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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President Rykov, aged 53, is a former Vice Chairman of the Council of Commissars and head of the S. C. N. E. Born at Nijni Novgorod of peasant parents, he early forsook the land and managed to give himself a university education. Unlike most Bolsheviki, he has not been much abroad; like most Bolsheviki, he has served terms of imprisonment, has been an exile in Siberia. In 1899 he joined the Social Democrat Party, before it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, actively plotted against the Tsar...