Background
DIVIL’KOVSKIY, Anatoliy was born in 1873. Son of a physician.
Party official and literary critic
DIVIL’KOVSKIY, Anatoliy was born in 1873. Son of a physician.
Studied at Kiev University.
Joined revol movement while still a student. 1903 member, Saint St. Petersburg Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (Iskra) Committee. 1903 arrested and 1904 exiled to Arkhangel’sk.
October 1905 returned to Saint St. Petersburg and began to organize Vyborg Rayon Soviet of Workers’ Deputy. Later fled to Viborg in Finland, where he worked for the Russian Section of local Social-Democratic Committee. 1906 emigrated to Switzerland and joined Plekhanov’s Menshevik group.
1912 broke with Mensheviks. During World War 1 supported internationalism. Early 1918 joined Bolshevik group in Geneva.
November 1918 returned to Russia, worked as an agitator and propagandist in Moscow, as assistant to the business-manager, Council of People's Commissar and for newspapers Bednola and Pravda. Toward end of life devoted himself entirely to lit work.
Religion is a tool used by the ruling classes for the masses to relieve their suffering via the act of experiencing religious emotions.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the guiding force of all socialist countries, and the nucleus of their political system.
Communist Party member from 1898.