biography
| name: |
Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich
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pronunciation:
[kaleenin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1875–1946)
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| biography:
| Soviet statesman, born in Tver, W Russia. He was the formal head of state after the 1917 Revolution and during the years of Stalin's dictatorship (1919–46). A peasant and metal-worker, he entered politics as a champion of the peasant class, and won great popularity. He became president of the Soviet Central Executive Committee (1919–38), and of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1938–46). His birthplace was renamed Kalinin after him (until 1991). |
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