Iosif Stanislavovich UNSHLIKHT

Background

UNSHLIKHT, Iosif was born on December 19, 1879 in Mlava, Plotsk Province, Poland.

Education

Completed secondary and specialized tech training in Warsaw.

Career

From his youth in revol movement. 1900 joined Social-Democratic Parly of Poland and Lith and was deleg of its 5th and 6th Congresses. Attended 5th (London) Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress.

Member, Warsaw, Lodz and Interregional Committee, Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania Repeatedly arrested and exiled. 1916 exiled to village Tungurka, Irkutsk Province.

After 1917 February Revol with Irkutsk Executive Committee and with Irkutsk Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. From April 1917 member, Pctrograd Soviet. Member, Central Executive Committee, Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lith groups in Russia.

Worked for Polish newspaper “Tribuna". Elected to Constituent Assembly on Petrograd Bolshevik list. July 1917 arrested by Provisional Government.

Participated in 1917 October Revol. Member, Petrograd Military Revol Committee. Collegium member, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.

Late 1918 sent to Western Front. Elected member, Central Committee, Communist Party Belorussian and Lithuania Belorussian and Lith People's Commissar of Military Affairs.

From April 1919 in Red Army. Member, Revol Military Council, 16th Army. Then member, Revol Military Council, Western Front.

From April 1921 deputy chairman, All-Russian Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation (Joint State Political Administration). Late 1923 appointed member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Revol Military Council and Red Army chief of supply. From February 1925 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Deputy People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs.

1927 elected deputy chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Social to Promote the Aviation, Chemical and Defense lnd. 1930 Presidium member, Supreme Economic Council. 1930-1933 deputy chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Planning Committee.

1933 chief arbiter, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Council of People's Commissar. 1933-1935 head, Main Civil Aviation Board. February 1935 at 7th Congress of Soviets elected secretary, Union Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee.

Member, Central Executive Committee of all convocations. At 13th Parly Congress elected member, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Centr Auditing Commission. At 14th, 15th and 17th Party Congresses elected candidate member.

Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Arrested by State Security organs.

Religion

Religion is an instrument of the ruling classes to instill in the masses the religious conviction that their current suffering will lead to eventual happiness.

Views

Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the guiding force of all socialist countries, and the nucleus of their political system.

Membership

Communist Party member from 1900.

• Communist Part

  1900