Background
SAMOYLOVA, Konkordiya was born in 1876 in Irkutsk. Daughter of a priest.
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Konkordiya Nikolayevna SAMOYLOVA
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Graduate Irkutsk high-school. From 1896 studied on Saint St. Petersburg Higher Women's Courses.
Career
From 1897 active in revol movement. 1902 sided with “Iskra” group in Paris. 1903 member, Tver’, 1905 Odessa, 1906-1907 Rostov, Moscow Okrug, then Lugana Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee.
1907 deleg at 5th Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress. Then worked in Baku; 1909-1910 member, Saint St. Petersburg Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. 1912 secretary, ed staff, newspaper “Pravda”.
Helped direct women's proletarian movement. Member, editorial board, journal “rabotnitsa”. Frequently arrested; after 1917 February Revol organisation and propaganda work among Petrograd workers.
After 1917 October Revol chairman, Commission for Work among Women Workers, Petrograd Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. November 1917 directed 1st Conference of Women Workers. January 1918 helped organize 1st All-Russian Conference of Women Workers.
Touring instructor for Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) for propaganda among women workers. Contributed to “Pravda” and journal “Kommunistka”. 1919 member, Samara Province and City Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee.
Then head, Department for Work Among Women, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. 1920-1921 head, Polit Department, “Krasnaya Zvezda” agitation steamer on the Volga. Wrote numerous articles and pamphlets.
Membership
Communist Party member from 1903.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics