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Yan Ernestovich Rudzutak ( Latvian Janis Rudzutaks, Russian Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак, August 3, 1887- July 29, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician.Rudzutak was born in the Kuldiga district of the Courland Province (now Latvia) in Russia in a family of a farm worker. In 1903, he started working in a factory in Riga. Two years later, he joined Latvian Social Democratic Labour Party. In 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis, Rudzutak was arrested and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. He served a part of his sentence in Riga and was then transferred to Butyrka prisonButyrka prison is a prison in Moscow built in an 18th century fortress. Among its inmates have numbered the influential revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky; the founder of the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky (who was one of the few individuals to stage a success in MoscowMoscow ( Russian: Moskva capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 878. The city's population is rapidly increasing, with 11. 2 million inhabitants counted in 2004. The city is in the federal district called Central Russia (which is. Rudzutak was released after the February RevolutionThe February Revolution of 1917 in Russia was the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Its immediate result was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. It occurred largely as a result of dissatisfaction with the way the Tsar was running the country, of 1917Events January 2 The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank. January 22 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. January 25 The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million January 25 Anti-.
After his release, Rudzutak served in various positions in the All-Russia Communist PartyFor other usage of the initials CPSU see CPSU (disambiguation). The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Russian: was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wordin, Soviet system and labor unionA union labor union in American English; trade union sometimes trades union in British English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers in a partis. From 19201920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 Britain announces it will build 100,000 homes for war veterans. January 10 Leagu to 1921, he was the secretary general of All-Russia Central Council of Labor Unions. From 1922 to 1923, Rudzutak was the chairman of Central Asian bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Russia Communist Party and, from 1923 to 1924, a secretary of the Central Committee. From 1924 until 1934, he was the People's Commissar (the minister) for transportation. In 1926, Rudzutak was appointed deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (the equivalent of deputy prime minister) and held this position until 1937.
Rudzutak was a member of the Central Committee of All-Russia Communist Party from 1920 until 1937, a candidate member of the Politburo from 1923 to 1926 and from 1934 to 1937 and a full member of the Politburo from 1926 to 1932.
On May 24, 1937, Rudzutak was arrested. He was accussed of Trotskyism and espionage for Nazi Germany. He was sentenced to death penalty, in a trial, which unlike the well-known Moscow Trials, received very little publicity, and executed. In 1956, Rudzutak's case was reexamined, he was recognized innocent and his Communist Party membership was posthumously restored.
The memoirs of another Bolshevik, Anastas Mikoyan, mention that, before the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Lenin proposed Rudzutak as a replacement for Joseph Stalin as the secretary general of the Communist Party. While Lenin's criticism of Stalin is well known from the Lenin's Testament, Mikoyan's memoirs are the only source mentioning Rudzutak as the possible replacement for Stalin.
Rudzutak, Yan
Rudzutak, Yan
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