Klavdiya Ivanovna Kirsanova

Klavdiia Ivanovna Kirsanova ( Russian Клавдия Ивановна Кирсанова ; born March 16 ^{. Jul} / 28. March  1887 ^greg. In Kulebaki ; † 10. October 1947 in Moscow ) was a Soviet state and Parteifunktionärin.

Life

Kirsanova, the daughter of an office worker at a factory in Kulebaki, was expelled from high school for participating in the revolutionary movement. She joined the RSDLP in 1904 . During the Russian Revolution of 1905–1907 she was active in the Perm Organization of the RSDLP. She was banned for life because of her revolutionary activities, then was in exile for ten years. During her exile in Yakutia , she married the revolutionary Yemeljan Michailowitsch Jaroslawski (1878-1943). After the October Revolution of 1917, Kirsanova was chairman of the Nadezhdinsk Soviet (now Serow ), chairman of the Verkhnyaya Tura War Soviet and member of the War College of the Third Army on the Eastern Front . In 1918 she became secretary of the KPR district committee for Moscow's Khamovniki district . She was a delegate at the 8th  Party Congress of the KPR (B) in February 1919 in Moscow. From autumn 1919 Kirsanova was director of the political department of the War Commissariat (Военкомат) of the Perm governorate . In September 1920 she became secretary of the Omsk City Party Committee (горком).

From 1922 to 1924 she was the deputy rector of the Sverdlov Communist University in Moscow. She has been the director of the International Lenin School since it was founded in 1926. At the end of 1931, she was deprived of leadership of the school for the first time because of “lack of political vigilance”. After she got it back in March 1933, she finally lost it in November 1937.

In 1938 Kirsanova became the head of the Department of Higher Education in the Higher Education Committee at the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. From 1941 she was a lecturer in the department for agitation and propaganda at the Central Committee of the CPSU (Bolsheviks).

From 1945 Kirsanova worked for the International Women's Democratic Federation and was a member of the Presidium of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women.

Awards

Kirsanova was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star .

literature

• Entry: Кирсанова, Клавдия Ивановна . In: Большая советская энциклопедия . Third edition. Издательство "Советская энциклопедия", Moscow 1969–1978 (Russian).
• Entry: Кирсанова, Клавдия Ивановна . In: Вениамин Васильевич Алексеев: Уральская историческая энциклопедия. Изд-во Екатеринбург 1998, p. 261.
• Julia Köstenberger: Klavdija Kirsanova - Rector of the International Lenin School in Moscow . In: Year Book for Research on the History of the Labor Movement . Book I (2007), pp. 78-90.