|
ALEKSEY IVANOVICH RYKOV
1881 - 1938
Lenin's Successor
At the peak of his
political career, Rykov was the head of the Soviet
government.
As such he was the
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars,
aka Prime Minister, of the Bolshevik government.
Aleksey Ivanovich
Rykov, also spelled
Alexey Rykov,
Alexei Rykov,
Aleksej Rykov,
or Алексе́й Ива́нович
Ры́ков, was a right wing Bolshevik.
Of course there
was no such thing in
Stalin's
Little Handbook of Dictators and Rykov's
career was terminated by the
Great Purges.
Rykov's Political Views
Rykov was for
a reconciliation of all fractions within the
Russian
Social-Democratic Workers' Party. He
was against a Bolshevik solo performance, which
put him up against
Lenin. But
Rykov compromised and he became a member of the
Bolshevik government.
Together with
Pravda chief editor
Nikolay I. Bukharin, Rykov was one
of the main supporters of the
New
Economic Policy (NEP).
Rykov Vs. Stalin
Stalin sang Rykov's tune and used him to
get rid of left-wingers like Trotsky, Kamenev,
and Zinovyev. Stalin then turned 180 degrees,
sang the tune of the recently politically
ruined, and gave Rykov the eye.
Rykov found
himself under the label Right Opposition,
was arrested, convicted of treason, and
executed. Welcome to Stalin Land.
Left to right - Rykov, Bukharin, Kalinin, Uglanov, Stalin, and Tomsky
at Lenin's Tomb in Moscow in 1927 at the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
marxists.org
Russia After
Rykov
Rykov's successor
as head of the Soviet government was cocktail
enthusiast Vyacheslav
Mikhaylovich Molotov.
|
Aleksey I. Rykov - Short Biography
|
|
February 25, 1881
(February 13, 1881
old style) |
|
Birth in Saratov, Russia |
|
|
|
|
|
1899 |
|
Joins the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party |
|
|
|
|
|
1903 |
|
The Social Democratic Workers' Party splits and Rykov
sides with
the Bolsheviks |
|
|
|
|
|
February 8, 1904 |
|
The
Russo-Japanese War begins |
|
|
|
|
|
January 22, 1905
(January 9, 1905
old style) |
|
The
Russian Revolution of 1905 begins |
|
|
|
|
|
1910 - 1911 |
|
Visits Paris |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Back in Russia, arrested, exiled to
Siberia |
|
|
|
|
|
July 28, 1914 |
|
World War I begins |
|
|
|
|
|
March 8, 1917
(February 23, 1917
old style) |
|
The
Russian Revolution of 1917 begins |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Back to Moscow |
|
|
|
|
|
November 6-7, 1917
(October 24-25, 1917
old style) |
|
Bolshevik Revolution |
|
|
|
|
|
1917 |
|
Rykov becomes Commissar of the Interior in the first
Bolshevik government. |
|
|
|
|
|
1918 - 1921 |
|
Chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy |
|
|
|
|
|
1922 - 1929 |
|
Member of the
Politburo |
|
|
|
|
|
January 1924 - 1930 |
|
Rykov succeeds
Lenin as Chairman of the Council of
People's Commissars |
|
|
|
|
|
1937 |
|
Arrested |
|
|
|
|
|
March 1938 |
|
Tried and convicted of treason |
|
|
|
|
|
March 14, 1938 |
|
Death in Moscow |
|
