biography
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Rykov, Alexey Ivanovich
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pronunciation:
[reekof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1938)
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| biography:
| Russian revolutionary and politician, born in Saratov, W Russia. He studied at Kazan University. He helped organize the October Revolution in Petrograd (1917), and was appointed People's Commissar for Internal Affairs in the first Soviet government. He held a number of senior government and party posts (1919–37), becoming a member of the Politburo (1919–29). In 1928, with Bukharin and others, he led the ‘right opposition’ against Stalin's economic policies. In 1937 he was arrested for alleged anti-Party activities, and shot some months later. |
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