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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.

 

Rykov, Bukharin, Kalinin, Uglanov, Stalin, and Tomsky at Lenin's Tomb in Moscow in 1927 at the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
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

 

 

 

 

 

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