Yemeljan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky

Yemeljan Jaroslawski in 1917

Yemelyan Yaroslavsky , in literature written as Yemelian Jaroslavskij ( Russian Емельян Михайлович Ярославский * February 19 ^{. Jul} / 3. March  1878 ^greg. In Chita , † 4. December 1943 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and journalist. He was the leader of the Society of the Wicked (Russian Общество безбожников ), also known as the Union of Militant Atheists.

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Yaroslavsky, of Jewish descent, was born under the name Minei Israilewitsch Gubelman ( Russian Миней Израилевич Губельман) in Chita. In 1898 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Russia . In 1903 he led a textile workers' strike in Yaroslavl . His name Jaroslawski is derived from this. He was a participant in the Russian Revolution from 1905 to 1907 . In 1907 he was arrested and sentenced to forced labor and exile. From that time on, Jaroslawski lived in exile as a professional revolutionary until 1917.

He is considered one of the main organizers of the October Revolution . After Lenin's death, he held a wide range of functions under Stalin . He was chairman of the Society of Former Political Prisoners , chairman of the Society of Old Bolsheviks , a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU . In the 1930s, Jaroslawski, who also served as chairman of the Association of the Fighting Godless , led the anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union, which was broken off with the beginning of the war against Germany . As a journalist, he wrote regularly for the party newspaper Pravda .

Yemeljan Jaroslawski was married to Klawdija Kirsanowa . After Yaroslavsky's death, his urn was buried on the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

Fonts

• E. Jaroslawski: From the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) , Part One - From the People's Friends Movement to the Imperialist War, Verlag Carl Hoym Successor, Hamburg - Berlin NW6, 1929.
• E. Jaroslawski: What does the party ask of the communist? , Publishing Company Cooperative of Foreign Workers (VEGA), Moscow, 1936.
• E. Jaroslawski: The Stalin Constitution and the Question of Religion , State Publishing House of the National Minorities of the USSR, Kiev, 1937.
• E. Jaroslawski, A. Stachanow and a .: Encounters with Comrade Stalin , contributions by E. Jaroslawski, A. Stachanow, I. Papanin, M. Gromow, J. Bardin, W. Barsowa and others, Verlag für Fremdsprachige Literatur, Moscow, 1940.
• E. Jaroslawski: From the life and work of Comrade Stalin , publishing house for foreign language literature, Moscow. 1940.
• with GF Alexandrow , II Minz , PN Pospelow a . a .: History of the civil war in the USSR. Volume Two: The Great Proletarian Revolution (October – November 1917) . Foreign Language Literature Publishing House, Moscow 1949.
• J. Jaroslawski: Kratkije otscherki po istorii WKP (B) , Tschast perwaja. Ot narodnitschestwa do perioda likwidatorstwa, Moscow-Leningrad.
• J. Jaroslawski: Kak prowodit tschistku partii , Gosudarstwennoje Isdatelstwo, Moscow-Leningrad, 1929.

literature

• Jeanne Vronskaya: Vladimir Chuguev , in: Biographical dictionary of the Soviet Union 1917-1988 , London 1989, Saur, ISBN 0-86291-470-1 .
• Sandra Dahlke : Individual and Rule in Stalinism. Emel'jan Jaroslavskij (1878-1943) , Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-58955-9 .

Web links

Commons : Yemelyan Yaroslavsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jemeljan Michailowitsch Jaroslawski in the catalog of the German National Library