Background
BARANSKY, Nikolay was born in 1881 in Tomsk.
BARANSKY, Nikolay was born in 1881 in Tomsk.
1899-1901 Law Faculty, Tomsk University. 1914 graduated Moscow Institute of Commerce.
Since 1898 propagandist and organizer of Society Democratic movement in Russia. 1901 expelled from university for taking part in student political strike. From then on professional revolutionary in Siberia.
1903 elected comt. member, Siberian Society Democratic Union. 1905 attended 1st All-Russia Bolsheviks’ Conference in Tammerfors, Finland. Since 1918 high posts in Soviet government and institutes.
1920 Director, Economics Department, Siberian Revolutionary Committee, and Deputy Director, Siberian Statistical Board. Member, All-Union Geography Society. Member, Higher Certifying Commission, Minister of Higher Education.
1921-1941 member, Collegium, Popular Commissariat of Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection. Directed propaganda group for “Lenin Recruitment” work, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Deputy Rector, then Rector, Communist University for Workers of the East.
1941-1943 Director, Geography Section, Kazakhstan Branch, USSR Academy of Science. Professor, Alma-Ata Pedagogical Institute.
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Member, Communist Party, since 1920.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Communist Party, since 1920.