Background
RADCHENKO, Ivan was born on October 22, 1874 in Konotop. Son of a timber merchant.
RADCHENKO, Ivan was born on October 22, 1874 in Konotop. Son of a timber merchant.
September 1898 moved to Saint St. Petersburg and joined League for the Liberation of the Working Class. To establish contact with the workers, took a job as time-keeper at the Izhora Plant. From 1899 professional revolitionary.
1900 met Lenin in Pskov and 1901-1902 served as roving agent for “Iskra”. Founded underground “Iskra” presses in Kishinev, and Konotop. Visited many Russian towns to establish and maintain “Iskra” contacts with Social-Democratic groups.
1902 member, Saint St. Petersburg Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. “Iskra” representative in Organization(s) Committee for Convening 2nd Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress. 4 November 1902 arrested in Pskov and imprisoned in Peter and Paul Fortress.
1903 exiled to Siberia. August 1905 fled abroad. October 1905 returned to Russia.
1906-1907 head, Bolshevik Publ Office, Pctrograd. 1908-1911 Party work in Baku, Khar’kov and Odessa. 1911 in Saint St. Petersburg.
19i2 worked on construction of peat-fired eleetr power plant in Moscow area. After 1917 February Revol chairman, Bogorodsk (now Noginsk) Soviet. November 1917 commissioned by Lenin to organize Russian peat industry.
1918-1931 chairman, Main Peat Board, Supreme Economic Council. 1919-1920 deputy chairman, Main Forestry Committee, Supreme Economic Council. 1921-1922 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Trade.
1922 chairman, Sugar Trust. 1923-1931 Presidium member and deputy chairman, Supreme Economic Council. 1927-1930 and 1934-1935 director
Peat Research Institute. 1936-1937 admin work. 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
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.
All policy decisions should be made in the light of the continued, permanent development of the theory of Marxism–Leninism.
Communist Party member from 1898.