Alexandra Wassiljewna Artjuchina

Artyukhina's grave in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery

Aleksandra Artyukhina , born Afanassenkowa ( Russian Александра Васильевна Артюхина ; born October 25 ^{. Jul} / 6. November  1889 ^greg. In vyshny volochyok ; † 7. April 1969 in Moscow ) was a Soviet party and Staatsfunktionärin. In 1925 and 1927 she was elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Life

Artjuchina worked in the textile and metalworkers' unions in Saint Petersburg from 1908 and became a member of the RSDLP in 1910 .

After the February Revolution and her return from exile, she worked in the women's department of the district committee of the RSDLP (B) in Vyshny Volochek, and in 1918 was a delegate of the 1st All-Russian Congress of Women Workers.

After the October Revolution , she held leading party and economic functions. She was the head of the government women's department of the government committee of the Communist Party in Tver , chairwoman of the department for workers and peasants in the party's central committee, editor of the Rabotnitsa magazine , and later director of a textile factory.

She lost her position during the Stalin purges . After Stalin's death she was rehabilitated and in 1960 was given the honorary title Hero of Socialist Labor .

literature

• Lexicon of the Great October Socialist Revolution , Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig
• Carmen Scheide : Children, Kitchen, Communism. The relationship between everyday life and politics using the example of Moscow workers during the NEP, 1921-1930. Pano-Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-907576-26-8 .

Web links

• Alexandra Wassiljewna Artjuchina in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Russian)