Aleksey Pushkin (Napoleon's World)

Aleksey Nikolayevitch Pushkin (4 November 1898 - December 13, 1974) was an Alaskan left-wing politician, author and diplomat, who served as the Foreign Minister during the fifteen month Sarugin government in the 1960's and as Premier from the 1973 electoral victory of the Liberals until his sudden death from a stroke on December 13, 1974 - thus serving barely over a year. He was known early in his career as an outspoken proponent of various left-wing policies, including an all-out endorsement of Marxism in the early 1940's, but gradually gravitated towards the center during the Sighovaryin era in order to remain politically viable and later used his comparatively centrist economic idealogy to convince the growing Moderate Party to form a coalition with his resurgent liberals in 1973. Having served in the Duma since 1930, his 44 years in office was one of the longest for any member of the Duma who would eventually become Premier.