Party work in Riga, Saint St. Petersburg and Irkutsk. Often arrested; after 1917 February Revol chairman, Minusinsk Okrug Soviet. Took part in October 1917 armed uprising in Petrograd.
1918-1919 fought in Civil War. From 1920 government and admin posts. Collegium member, Main Metal Indiana Board.
Chairman, Ukraine Agric Machine-Building Trust. Board chairman, All-Russian Agric Machinery and Implements Syndicate. Associate, Institute for the Designing of Electric Power Plants, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Heavy Indiana.
1921-1922 sided with "Workers’ Opposition” group, but broke with it shortly after 11th Party Congress. Arrested by State Security organs.
As long as the public believes in religion, they will not attempt to make any genuine effort to understand and overcome the real source of their suffering.
All policy decisions should be made in the light of the continued, permanent development of the theory of Marxism–Leninism.
Communist Party member from 1906.