Wagarschak Arutjunowitsch Ter-Waganjan

Wagarschak Ter-Waganjan

Wagarschak Arutjunowitsch Ter-Vaganyan ( Armenian Վաղարշակ Հարությունի Տեր-Վահանյան; Russian Тер-Ваганян, Вагаршак Арутюнович / Ter-Vaganyan, Wagarschak Arutjunowitsch , scientific. Transliteration Vagaršak Arutjunovič Ter-Vaganyan * 5. November 1893 in the village Kartschewan , government Yerevan ; † August 25, 1936 in Moscow ) was a Russian writer who worked in Moscow and was expelled three times from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). As one of the first victims of the Stalinist purges , he was the first Moscow trial on August 24, 1936 sentenced to death and the next day shot .

Life

official

In 1912 Vagarshak joined the RSDLP (B) and in 1917 was appointed secretary of that party's Moscow committee. 1918–1920 he was a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Moscow City Soviet. 1922–1923 Ter-Waganjan worked as the editor-in-chief of the Moscow philosophical - economic journal Under the Banner of Marxism . In addition, he headed the Plekhanov cabinet at the Marx-Engels Institute . In 1923 he was Trotsky in and signed the Declaration of the 46 .

Ter-Waganjan later worked in a publishing house in the light industry and worked for Voronskis literary magazine Rotes Neuland . Because at the end of 1927 he was on the XV. Confessed to the left opposition of his party at the CPSU congress , he was expelled from it for the first time and banished to Kazan . When Ter-Waganjan regretted his opposition activity in 1929, the comrades took him back into their ranks. In 1933 he was expelled from the party for the second time as a member of the opposition under Smirnov and imprisoned. In prison he went on a hunger strike and wrote a petition to Stalin . He was then released in 1934 and re-admitted to the party. Activities against the party resulted in the third expulsion in 1935.

In 1936 Ter-Waganjan was arrested, charged, convicted and shot together with the Kamenev - Zinoviev group as an alleged spy and terrorist .

It was not until 1988 that Ter-Waganjan was rehabilitated.

Literary man

Some works from the pen of Ter-Waganjan:

• 1921 Статьи о Толстом (article on Tolstoy )
• 1923 Белинский ( Belinsky )
• 1924 А. И. Герцен. Сборник статей ( Collection of articles on Alexander Ivanovich hearts )
• 1924 Ленин о задачах внутреннего партийного строительства (Lenin on party work)
• 1924 Ленин и искусство вооруженного восстания (Lenin and the Art of the Armed Insurrection)
• 1925 О некоторых вопросах истории РКП (On some questions of the party history)
• 1926 Что получается, когда обыватель роется в истории (What happens when we dig up history)
• 1926 Поборники каннибализма (The Advocates of Cannibalism)
• 1926 По боевым вопросам марксизма (polemics on Marxism)
• 1926 Две заметки по спорным вопросам истории (Two Notes on Controversial Questions in History)
• 1927 Не согласен ни с одним из моих оппонентов (I do not submit to any of my opponents)
• 1929 Две статьи Плеханова в "Летописях марксизма" (On two articles by Plekhanov in the Annals of Marxism)
• 1931 Основные вопросы педагогической дискуссии (basic questions of pedagogical discussion)
• 1931 Организация научного творчества масс (About the creative occupation of the population with science)
• 1931 О системе народного образования (About popular education)
• 1934 Chatschatur Abovjan (Russian Хачатур Абовян , online at fb2-books.org) (Russian)

Web links

• Short biography in the Армянская энциклопедия фонда "Хайазг" (Russian)
• Biographical entry at dedushka-stepan (Russian)
• Dimitri Volkogonov : Stalin. Triumph and tragedy. A political portrait . From the Russian by Vesna Jovanoska, Econ Verlag Düsseldorf, 1989, 3rd edition 1996; ISBN 3-430-19847-X .

Remarks

1. ↑ Birthday: Entry under: Тер-Ваганян Вагаршак Арутюнович at lists.memo.ru: Жертвы политического террора в ССССР (The Victims of Political Terror in the USSR )Р
2. ↑ Yerevan Governorate (Russian Эриванская губерния ): today Armenia , Province of Syunik .