Background
Krasnoschchekov, Aleksandr was born in 1880 in Chernobyl, Kiev Gouvernement. Son of a Jewish manager.
Krasnoschchekov, Aleksandr was born in 1880 in Chernobyl, Kiev Gouvernement. Son of a Jewish manager.
Graduated in law from Chicago University, 1912.
Several short arrests, imprisonments and exiles. In November 1902, escaped a new arrest and left for Berlin. Moved to the USA. Worked as a tailor and interior decorator.
Member of the American Social Democratic Party. In July 1917, arrived in Vladivostok. Chairman and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Far East Republic, December 1917-Sept 1918.
After the republic’s crash, escaped to Siberia. Arrested near Samara, but released by Irkutsk Bolsheviks. In 1920, member of the Soviet delegation at the 2nd Congress of the Komintern.
Various senior party positions in Moscow, 1921-1923. Chairman of the Prombank (Industrial Bank). Arrested, 19 September 1923.
Released in November 1924. Wrote a book. The Modern American Bank (Sovremennyi Amerikanskii Bank), which was to be published in 1926, but was delayed because of his arrest. (It was eventually published in 1927.) The story of his arrest was turned into a play by B. S. Romashov: Vozdushnyi Pirog (premiere, February 1925).
In the summer of 1922, with his daughter Llewella, lived in Pushkino, where he met Mayakovsky and helped him overcome the delays in the publication of his works. In 1937, arrested, tried as an American spy, and executed.
Religions convince people that the source of their misery lies in the inherent and unchangeable "sinfulness" of humanity rather than in the forms of social organization and institutions.
With the establishment of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and Asia, capitalism lost its dominance as an economic system.