Alexander Jeremejewitsch Minkin

Alexander Jeremejewitsch Minkin ( Russian Александр Еремеевич Минкин ; * 1887 in Moscow , † 1955 ) was a Soviet diplomat .

Life

From 1896 Alexander Minkin worked in a china shop, a watchmaker and a publisher . In 1903 he took part in an eventful meeting in Moscow and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party . In the autumn of 1903 he was arrested and exiled to Tobolsk . There he distributed brochures of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in the local garrison . To avoid the harassment of the police, he evaded to Perm and then to Yekaterinburg . There he was able to apply his skills in printing public relations . He took on tasks in preparation for the armed uprising in December 1905 in Motowilicha (now a district of Perm). On this occasion he met Jakow Michailowitsch Sverdlov , his wife Klawdija Novgorodzewa and Sergei Tscherepanow (born March 19, 1881 in Kungur; † August 1918).

Minkin then moved from Perm to Ufa , where he helped set up a printing plant, was arrested and exiled to the Yenisei province . From here he escaped via Manchuria , Japan and Hawaii to Chicago , where he met representatives of the Central American Socialist Party, built a socialist party and was one of the founders of the Russian socialist edition of the Novyi Mir newspaper .

In late April 1917, Minkin returned to Petersburg , where he became chairman of the city and district Communist Party. On his initiative, around 250 people went through agitator training. He did a lot to paralyze the influence of the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries and, as chairman of the printers' union with about 26,000 members, agitated for the Bolsheviks.

After the October Revolution , Minkin became People's Commissar for the Press. In 1919 he was chairman of the Communist Party in Penza . He was appointed to manage the Goznak factory in Perm.

Later he was chairman of the Communist Party in Perm, Samara and Arkhangelsk . He was then employed by the Communist International .

Boris Kraevsky represented the Южамторга ( Yuzhamtorg , a Soviet trade mission) since 1926 in Buenos Aires , when he was replaced by Minkin in 1930. In 1931, the Yuzhamtorg offices occupied two floors of a building on Avenida de Mayo when they were searched by police in July. Minkin then moved the office to Montevideo , where he was accredited as Ministre plénipotentiaire from the spring . After the failure of the uprising of Luís Carlos Prestes on November 27, 1935 against the regime of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil, Minkin was expelled from Montevideo.

In 1938 he was in the Stalinist purges arrested, to 18 years imprisonment convicted and rehabilitated 1955th

predecessor	Office	successor
Alexander Ippolitowitsch Scherbatskoi	Soviet Ministre plénipotentiaire in Montevideo 1934 to 1935	1943 1944 Sergey Alexeyevich Orlov

Individual evidence

1. ↑ МИНКИН Александр Еремеевич (1887-1955) ( Memento from October 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ( Russian )
2. ^ Time , Jan. 13, 1936, Foreign News: Suffering South America