Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov (politician)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov ( Russian Владимир Михайлович Смирнов ; * 1887 , † 1937 ) was a Soviet politician .
Life
Smirnov studied economics and joined the Bolsheviks in 1907 . In 1917 he was one of the leaders of the revolution in Moscow. After the October Revolution he was a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council. In 1918 he was an opponent of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty. During the civil war he was a commissioner in the Red Army. In 1919 he was the spokesman for the military opposition at the tenth party congress. Later he was one of the spokesmen for the " decists ".
Smirnov worked in economic administration in the 1920s. In 1923 he was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Forty-Six . In 1927, like all opposition leaders, he was expelled and shortly afterwards banished. He died in Vorkuta and was not later rehabilitated.
Web links
- Leon Trotsky. Workers' state, Thermidor and Bonapartism. on marxists.org; Retrieved November 21, 2010
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| SURNAME | Smirnov, Vladimir Mikhailovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Смирнов, Владимир Михайлович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1887 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1937 |