Everywhere the same question: Who will rule Russia? If a triumvirate, can it long endure or does the Soviet structure demand a single head? Will there be orderly elimination or violence?

Having disposed of the so-called Left opposition, Stalin had no trouble dealing with the Right opposition, Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky, and was then supreme in the Politburo, the real governing body.

There seemed little doubt that: 1) Stalin himself had picked Malenkov ... remained on the all-powerful Politburo, free to think and plan; the ministries were taken over by lesser lights, e.g ...

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On June 23, 1942, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet—in reality, Stalin's Politburo—commuted Vavilov's death sentence to 20 years of imprisonment in labor camps. But no medical help was given ...

With a year to go before Tamil Nadu’s Assembly election, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has put its opposition to delimitation at ...

In July-October 1926, Kamenev and Trotsky were expelled from the Politburo, and in November ... and Kamenev subsequently capitulated to Stalin and rejoined the Communist Party, Trotsky was exiled ...