Yakov Sverdlov Я́ков Свердло́в | |
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| Born | 3 June 1885 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire |
| Died | 16 March 1919 Moscow, Russian SFSR |
| Cause of death | Spanish flu |
| Political orientation | Marxism–Leninism |
| Political party | Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) |
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov was a Bolshevik and Chairman of the All-Russian Executive Committee.
Pre-revolution
The Prague Congress of the Bolshevik Party in 1912 elected Sverdlov to the Central Committee, but he could not serve on the committee because he was exiled in Siberia at the time.[1]
Post-revolution
Trotsky conspired to assassinate Sverdlov along with Lenin and Stalin in 1918.[2] Sverdlov died shortly before the Eighth Congress of the Bolshevik Party in March 1919.[3]
References
- ↑ Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the Period of the Stolypin Reaction. The Bolsheviks Constitute Themselves an Independent Marxist Party'. [MIA]
- ↑ Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Preparation and Realization of the October Socialist Revolution'. [MIA]
- ↑ Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Foreign Military Intervention and Civil War'. [MIA]