Background
GEDRIS, Kazis was born on March 3, 1891.
GEDRIS, Kazis was born on March 3, 1891.
October 1917 organized Lith detachment to fight against Krasnov’s forces. 1918 worked for Lith Section, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Later representative, Lith Provisional Revol Workers and Peasant’s Government on Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Council of People's Commissar.
1919 Communist Party Lith and Belorussian delcg, 1st Communist International Congress. Fall 1919-summcr 1920 member, illegal Vilnius Kray Bureau, Communist Party Lith and Belorussian. June 1920 arrested by Polish Security Police and imprisoned.
Spring 1921 released (exchanged), went to Moscow. 1922-1923 secretary, Lith Section, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in Moscow. From October 1923 underground work in Kaunas.
October 1924 arrested. July 1926 released; illegal work for Lith Central Committee, International Organization(s) for Aid to Revol Fighters.
Communist Party member from 1917.