Awetis Sultan Sade

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Awetis Sultan-Sade , born Awetis Mikaeljan , ( Russian Аветис Султан-Заде , birth name Russian Аветис Микаэлян ; * 1889 in Maragha ; † June 16, 1938 ) was an Iranian - Soviet economist and revolutionary poor .

Life

Sultan-Sade came from a poor Armenian family. He attended school near Yerevan and then joined the revolutionary movement in the Caucasus . In 1909 he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party . From autumn 1911 he studied at the Moscow Trade Institute. At the end of 1912 he returned to Iran as a party worker .

After the October Revolution , Sultan Sade and Haidar Khan Amuogly were sent by the Comintern to Tashkent , where he worked in the Council for International Propaganda in the East. Together with other council members, he was seconded to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Gilan , where he and others founded the Communist Party of Iran and became a member of its Central Committee. He headed the left wing of the party, which called for the land reform to be carried out immediately and was against working with Mirza Kutschak Khan . At the same time, Sultan-Sade was a member of the Iranian Executive Committee of the Comintern from 1920-1923. In 1925 he became chief editor of the journal Ökonomischer Aufbau . Until 1927 he participated in the work of the Soviet banking system . He wrote investigative reports on Iran.

In 1935 Sultan-Sade was removed from all his offices. He was arrested on January 17th, 1938 during the Great Terror . On June 16, 1938, the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death for espionage and shot him immediately . The Supreme Court of the USSR rehabilitated him on June 9, 1956.

Sultan-Sade's son was the sculptor Leonid Lwowitsch Berlin .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Люди и судьбы: СУЛТАН-ЗАДЕ (наст. Фам .: Микаэлян) Аветис Султанович (1889–1938) (accessed October 30, 2019).
  2. ↑ Chaqueri Cosroe: Avetis Sultanzade, The Forgotten Revolutionary Theoretician . Institut Sultanzade Pour La Recherche Ouvrière, 1976.
  3. ↑ Chaqueri Cosroe: The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: Birth of the Trauma . University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh London 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Sultan Sade, Awetis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Султан-Заде, Аветис (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-Soviet economist and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Maragha
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1938