Sven Linderot

Sven Linderot (1955)

Sven Harald Linderot (actually Larsson ; born October 8, 1889 in Skedevi , Östergötland County , † April 7, 1956 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish communist politician . He was chairman of the Communist Party of Sweden from 1929 to 1951 .

Life

After attending elementary school in Hävla and Rejmyre , Linderot worked from 1900 to 1912 as a glass blower in Rejmyre and Nynäshamm . From 1912 to 1914 he was a sales representative for sewing machines , and in 1915 he was secretary of the trade union of trade employees (Handelsanställdas förbund) in Stockholm . From 1916 to 1918 he was secretary of the Social Democratic Youth Association ( Socialdemokratiska Ungdomsförbundet , SDUF).

From 1908 to 1917 Linderot was a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party ( Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti , SAP), to whose left wing he belonged. In May 1917 he founded with others the Social Democratic Left Party of Sweden ( Sveriges socialdemokratiska vänsterparti , SSVP), which was renamed the Communist Party of Sweden ( Sveriges kommunistiska parti , SKP) in 1921. In 1920/21 Linderot visited Siberia and Turkestan with the Swedish Aid Committee for Prisoners of War in Siberia founded by Elsa Brändström . In 1923 he became a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Norrskensflamman (Eng. "The Flame of the Northern Lights") in Luleå , from 1925 to 1927 he was its editor-in-chief. Between 1927 and 1929 and after 1951 Linderot was secretary of the SKP Central Committee for trade unions, among other things . From December 1929 to March 1951, Linderot was finally chairman of the SKP.

At the VII World Congress of the Comintern (1935) Linderot was elected a member of the EKKI and a substitute member of the Executive Committee of the EKKI.

From 1938 to 1949 Linderot was a member of the First Chamber of the Reichstag and chairman of the communist parliamentary group (1945-1949).

Works

• Vänstersocialismen och den fackliga kamp (Left socialism and the union struggle). Stockholm 1917.
• Mondism eller klasskamp? Facklig borgfred eller proletarian unit front mot kapitalets offensive? ( Mondism or class struggle? Union truce or proletarian united front against the offensive of capital?). Stockholm 1928.
• Grundskott mot Demokratin (death knell against democracy). Stockholm 1941.
• I kamp för fred och frihet (In the fight for peace and freedom). Stockholm 1941.
• Mellan världsklern: bidrag till Sveriges kommunistiska partis historia (Between the World Wars. A Contribution to the History of the Communist Party of Sweden). Stockholm 1942.
• Bondefrågan i Sverige (The peasant question in Sweden). Stockholm 1943.
• Bönder och arbetare (peasants and workers). Stockholm 1943.
• Communist's day program . Stockholm 1944.
• Kommunisterna och kristendomen (communists and Christianity). Stockholm 1947.
• Svensk arbetarrörelse i brytningstid. Tal och skrifter i urval (Swedish labor movement in the transition period. Selected speeches and writings). Stockholm 1949.

literature

• Article Линдерут Свен Харальд in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D070397~2a%3D%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%83%D1%82%20% D0% A1% D0% B2% D0% B5% D0% BD% 20% D0% A5% D0% B0% D1% 80% D0% B0% D0% BB% D1% 8C% D0% B4 ~ 2b% 3D% D0% 9B% D0% B8% D0% BD% D0% B4% D0% B5% D1% 80% D1% 83% D1% 82% 20% D0% A1% D0% B2% D0% B5% D0% BD% 20% D0% A5% D0% B0% D1% 80% D0% B0% D0% BB% D1% 8C% D0% B4
• Branko Lazitch (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern . Hoover Institution Press, Stanford 1986, ISBN 0-8179-8403-8 , p. 268.
• A. Thomas Lane (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of European labor leaders . Volume 1 (A-L). Westport / London, Greenwood 1995, ISBN 0-3132-9899-8 , p. 575.