Dawid Samuilowitsch Beika
Dawid Samuilowitsch Beika lett. Dāvids Beika (born August 30, 1885 Zaļenieki municipality, Courland Governorate ; † April 6, 1946 ) was a Latvian communist and Comintern official .
Beika became a member of the Bolsheviks in 1903 . In Dobele he worked as a teacher and took part in the 1905 revolution . He then hid as a forest brother and emigrated to the United States of America in 1907 . After the October Revolution he took over high party offices in the Latvian Communist Party . In 1919 he became Minister of Economic Affairs (Commissioner) of the Latvian SSR and, after their expulsion from the national territory, went to Russia. He was a delegate at the second and third congresses of the Comintern . After his return from the Spanish Civil War , Beika fell victim to the Stalin purges . Arrested by the NKVD on April 20, 1938 , he died in the Gulag in 1946 .
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- Jānis Šiliņš: Padomju Latvija 1918–1919 Riga 2013, ISBN 978-993-483-9900 biogr. Data on page 248
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beika, Dawid Samuilowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beika, Dāvids |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian Comintern functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1885 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1946 |