Background
ESSEN, Eduard was born in 1879.
ESSEN, Eduard was born in 1879.
Studied at Academy of Arts.
At age 14 broke with lamiliy and went to work on railroad. 1898 after joining Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party conducted Party propaganda in student circles and smuggled illegal lit through Finland. Party emissary to Yekaterinoslavl’.
1903 helped to organize strike in Southern Russia. From 1903 after 2nd Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress worked in Volga area, Yekaterinoslavl’, Khar’- kov, Odessa, Minsk and Saint St. Petersburg. 1914-1915 did Party work among soldiers on Riga Front.
1917 chairman, Vasiliy Ostrov Rayon Soviet, Petrograd. After 1917 October Revol Deputy People's Commissar of State Control. 1918 captured by White Army in Crimea.
After liberation of Crimea member, Revol Committee. Worked as front-line agitator in 7th Army. After Civil War rector, Tolmachyov Institute.
Head, Polit Department of Maritime Colleges. Professor. Naval Academy. 1924 rector, Institute of National Economy.
1925-1929 rector, Academy of Arts. From 1929 pensioner.
Religion is bad because it doesn't give equal treatment to women and thus offends basic human rights.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the leading and guiding force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of its political system, of all state and public organizations.
Communist Party member from 1898.