Ivan Nikitich Smirnov
Ivan Nikititsch Smirnow ( Russian Иван Никитич Смирнов ; * 1881 ; † August 25, 1936 in Moscow ) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician.
Life
Smirnov joined the Russian Social Democracy in 1899 . After the October Revolution he was a member of the Revolutionary War Council . In the Russian Civil War he fought in the lead against Kolchak . From 1923 to 1927 he was People's Commissar for the Post and Telegraph System. Smirnov was a co-signer of the declaration of 46 of 1923 and a founding member of the Left Opposition , in 1927 he was expelled from the CPSU . In 1929 he capitulated and was resumed. In 1931 Smirnov met the oppositionist Leo Sedov in Berlin and gave him material on the situation in the Soviet Union. In 1932 he tried to form a bloc from various opposition groups. He was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison, but tried and shot in the first Moscow show trial in 1936 .
Web links
- Short biography in the Marxists Internet Archive (English)
- Victor Serge : On the death of Ivan Nikitsch Smirnov
- Steffen Dietzsch: Bukharin, Nikolai Iwanowitsch, Karl Radek et al. , in: Kurt Groenewold , Alexander Ignor, Arnd Koch (Eds.): Lexicon of Political Criminal Trials , Online, as of September 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Igor V. Naumov: The History of Siberia. Routledge, 2006, ISBN 978-1-134-20702-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smirnow, Ivan Nikititsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1881 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1936 |
| Place of death | Moscow |