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Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich

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Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich (1875–1946) Soviet statesman, head of state of the Soviet Union (1919–46). He was a founder (1912) of the newspaper Pravda and fought in the Russian Revolution (1917). A supporter of Joseph Stalin, Kalinin served in the Politburo (1925–46).

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