“We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.”
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Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A key Bolshevik organizer of the October Revolution of 1917, Sverdlov served as chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party from 1918 until his death in 1919, and as chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 until his death in 1919.
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politics · Soviet politician (1885–1919) · politician · revolutionary · also Yakov Sverdlov, Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov, Sverdlov
Born 3 June 1885 · Died 16 March 1919 · Q298384
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2026· 3 entries
“not a single crime against the revolutionary military spirit will remain unpunished,”
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“The comrade I was with turned out to be such a person, socially, that we didn”
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2017· 1 entry
Libcom: Yakov Sverdlov
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1990· 1 entry
By the Moscow playwright and historian Edvard Radzinsky claims that Sverdlov ordered their execution on 16 July 1918
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1946· 1 entry
Worked in education, as a specialist in children's literature
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1938· 1 entry
A number of Ukrainian settlements as well as the Sverdlov mine (part of Sverdlovantratsyt company in 2010s) were merged into the city of Sverdlovsk, which the Ukrainian government renamed Dovzhansk on 12 May 2016, althou
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1937· 2 entries
Sentenced to five years exile in Orenburg, then was arrested again and sentenced to eight years in the gulag
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And a daughter, Ida, who married Genrikh Yagoda, the future head of the NKVD, and was shot in June 1938
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1924· 1 entry
As Sverdlov was a natural candidate for the post of General Secretary held by Stalin from 1922
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1919· 2 entries
Died 1919-03-16.
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And as chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (head of state) from 1917 until his death in 1919
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1918· 1 entry
Saw the signed telegraphic instructions to execute the Imperial Family came from Sverdlov
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1917· 4 entries
Career landmark: chairperson (1917–1919).
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Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1917–1919).
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When Lenin was in hiding and Trotsky and others were under arrest
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Where he was appointed head of the Road Research Institute
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1915· 1 entry
Klavdia joined Yakov in exile in the village of Monastyrskoe, where together they ran a Bolshevik reading circle in the town, which, though illegal, escaped the notice of the local authorities
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1914· 1 entry
Sverdlov moved to a different village, moving in with his friend Filipp Goloshchyokin, known as Georges
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1912· 1 entry
Was arrested, held in a cell with her infant son, and deported to Siberia
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1910· 1 entry
Joined Sverdlov in St Petersburg, and was arrested again in 1910, but because of her pregnancy was sent back to Yekaterinburg
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1906· 2 entries
Sverdlov was arrested and held in the Yekaterinburg prison until his release
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Represented the Perm Bolshevik at the Fourth RSDLP Congress in Stockholm
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1905· 1 entry
She and Sverdlov met after her release, and worked together during the 1905 revolution.
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1904· 1 entry
And was arrested for organising an illegal printing press
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1902· 2 entries
And supported Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction from 1903
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And then later the Bolshevik faction, supporting Vladimir Lenin
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1900· 1 entry
Mikhail converted with his family to the Russian Orthodox Church, married Maria Aleksandrovna Kormiltseva, and had two more sons, Herman and Alexander
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-06-03.
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