Background
LATSIS, Martyn was born on December 16, 1888 in Lat. Son of peasant.
LATSIS, Martyn was born on December 16, 1888 in Lat. Son of peasant.
Attended Shan- yavskiy University in Moscow.
Teacher by profession. 1906-1911 taught in Lat. 1911-1913 surveyor in Northern Caucasus.
1914 in Moscow; 1915 arretsed. 1916 exiled to Irkutsk Province. Fall 1916 fled from exile to Petrograd, where he did underground Party work.
Fought in 1905-1907 Revol in Riga and in 1917 October Revol in Petrograd. Deleg, 7th (April) Party Conference and 6th Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Congress. Member, Petrograd Military Revol Committee.
After 1917 October Revol Collegium member, People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs. From May 1918 Collegium member, All-Russian Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation. July-November 1918 chairman, Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation and Military Tribunal, 5th Army on Eastern Front.
1919-1921 chairman, AU-Ukraine Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation, then again worked for All-Russian Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation. Deleg, 8th and 10th Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congresses. From 1921 exec admin and Party work.
Chairman Main Salt Ind Board. Deputy head, Main Mining Ind Board. Collegium member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People’s Commissariat of Agric.
From 1928 senior instructor, Central Committee All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Then deputy head, Rural Department, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). From 1932 director, Plekhanov Economy Institute.
1937 arrested by State Security organs.
Religions encourage war and violence to promote their religious goals.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Communist Party member from 1905.