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In Dzerzhinsky's office | В кабинете Дзержинского, 1922 by Olga Via Flickr: In Dzerzhinsky's office. From left to right Yenukidze, Kamenev, Avanesov, Smidovich and Rykov. 1922 В кабинете Дзержинского, слева направо: Енукидзе, Каменев, Аванесов, Смидович и Рыков 1922
Aul Residential Complex in Almaty, Kazachstan. Sovjet-post-modernisme uit 1986 van de architecten B.Voronin, L. Andreeva. V. Vi, M. Djakipbaev, & E.Rykov.
soviet leadership: the other guys
Zinoviev
Active as early as 1903 & worked closely with Lenin from the beginning
Returned to Lenin in April 1917
Opposed revolution in October
Fell out with Lenin on government structure (wanted a socialist coalition)
Party Secretary in Leningrad
1919: Chairmain of Comintern
1921: Politburo membership
Good orator but not popular; people didn’t seem to like him :(
Kamenev
Full-time revolutionary from 1905
Collaborated with Lenin abroad during 1907-17
Opposed the April Theses and the revolution in October
Also wanted a socialist coalition
Party Secretary in Moscow
Commissar for Foreign Trade
Politburo member
I <3 Zinoviev
More of a moderate but was also well liked, well regarded
Rykov
Born to a peasant family
1918-20: Chairmain of the Vesenhka (Supreme Economic Council)
Formed 1917
1921: Succeeded Lenin as Chairman of the Sovnarkom
Opposed War Communism; supported the NEP
Heavy drinker, probably loves cracking open a cold one with the boys
Tomsky - the trade union guy Russia needed
Prior to 1917: member of the metalworkers’ trade union
1918: Chairman of the Central Council of Trade Unions
One of the few genuine workers in the Party
Supported trade union rights <3
Dismayed by reduction of trade unions to an “appendage of the state”
Opposed Lenin in the trade union controversy (1920)
Would the Bolsheviks boycott the Pre-Parliament?
Would the Bolsheviks boycott the Pre-Parliament?
Before dispersing, the Conference appointed from its members a permanent body composed of 15 per cent of the membership of each of its groups – in all, about 350 delegates. The institutions of the possessing classes were to receive in addition to this 120 seats. The government in its own name added 20 seats for the Cossacks. All these together were to constitute a Council of the Republic, or…
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