Kuzma Antonovich Gwozdew
Kusma Antonowitsch Gwosdew ( Russian Кузьма Антонович Гвоздев ; * 1882 , † after 1956 ) was a Russian revolutionary and victim of a show trial during the Stalin era .
Gwosdew was the chairman of the workers' group at the War Industry Committee in Tsarist Russia and was arrested by the Tsarist government in 1916. During the February Revolution he was appointed Minister of Labor. Under Stalin he was arrested as a Mensheviks during the process of the Menshevik Union Bureau ( March 1 to 9, 1931) and sentenced to camp imprisonment, had been in the GULAG penal camps without interruption since 1930 and was still in the Spassky camp by friends of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1952 seen.
"..., a man with the bitterest fate, ..."
“… Gwosdew suffered the ordeal of a long-term prisoner in the GULAG. I don't know how much he had dismounted before 1930, but he had been sitting continuously since 1930 and my friends met up with my friends in the Spasski camp in 1952. "
- Quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn, from: The GULAG Archipelago, p. 370
literature
- The GULAG Archipelago , Volume I, Chapter The Law is Ripe , p. 370, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Web links
- Biography at peoples.ru (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gwosdew, Kuzma Antonovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Гвоздев, Кузьма Антонович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian revolutionary, victim of a show trial during the Stalin era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1882 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1956 |