# Alexei Rykov — Ten Days That Shook the World character guide

> Alexei Rykov in Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Rykov, A. E. Rykov

**First appearance:** 0011-i-background

## Snapshot

A veteran Bolshevik organizer, Rykov belonged to the party's inner circle of administrators who would soon inherit the machinery of a broken state.

## Who they are

Rykov moves among the Bolshevik leadership at Smolny, one of the men whose long party service made him a natural candidate for governing once the Provisional Government fell. His position carries an implicit tension: the same men who spent years in opposition and exile must now run ministries, courts, and supply lines. He matters because the revolution's early-middle arc is as much about who will administer the new state as about who will storm the palace.

## In the story

### [Moscow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/x-moscow)

Seceding Commissar traveling with Nogin to Moscow.

### [Appendix to Chapter VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/appendix-to-chapter-vii)

Issued the Decree on Workers' Militia as People's Commissar of the Interior.

### [Two Decrees](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/1-two-decrees)

Signed the Decree on Workers' Militia as People's Commissar of the Interior.

### [Appendix to Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/appendix-to-chapter-viii)

Issued the decree on dwelling-places as People's Commissar of the Interior.

### [Acts of the Council of People’s Commissars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/3-acts-of-the-council-of-people-s-commissars)

As People's Commissar of the Interior, Rykov signs the decree on dwelling-places, granting municipalities the right to sequester housing.

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