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Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov [a] (3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1885 – 16 March 1919) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician who served as Chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from 1918 until his death in 1919, and as Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (head of state of the Russian SFSR) from 1917 until his death.
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov (born May 22 [June 3, New Style], 1885, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died March 16, 1919, Moscow) was a Soviet Communist Party leader and government official. His organizational skills and mastery of personnel made him a key figure in the Bolshevik Party in 1917–18. The son of a Jewish engraver, Sverdlov became ...
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Jun 3, 2015 · Jun 3, 2015. June 3, 1885 is the birthdate of Yakov Sverdlov, the Bolshevik agitator who helped Vladimir Lenin to realize his vision and was even briefly the head of state of the Russian Soviet Socialist Federal Republic. If his name is not well-known today, at least in the West, it’s probably because of his early death, at 33, under ...
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He also participated in preparations for the First Congress of the Communist International in January 1919. That month he died of Spanish flu and was buried in the Kremlin wall. As de facto head of the Soviet state, Sverdlov implemented Lenin’s policies without deviation. Whenever especially unpopular, or even illegal, decisions were made ...
Nov 6, 2017 · Jews in the top echelon of the Communist Party during its early days in power included Yakov Sverdlov, its executive secretary; Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Communist International; press ...
revolution broke out, Sverdlov travelled to the Urals came a spokesman for the Bolsheviks and a capable. iser.11 His exceptionally keen memory enabled him to of reliable rank-and-file party members. Arrests and imprisonments followed the failure of tion. From 1906 to 1917 Sverdlov spent most of his.
May 19, 2017 · Mal'kov remarks that Sverdlov moved into Lenin's office on the very night Lenin was shot (Mal'kov, Zapiski, 2nd ed., 160–161). According to Bonch-Bruevich, during Lenin's recovery, Sverdlov once said, “You see, Vladimir D'mitrievich, we can manage without Lenin,” which greatly surprised the far-from-naive Bonch-Bruevich (Bonch-Bruevich, Vospominaniia , 293).
