Background
LYADOV, Martyn was born in 1872 in Moscow. Son of a merchant.
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Martyn Nikolayevich LYADOV
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1889 graduate trade school.
Career
Worked in chemical plants. 1891 began revol work in Moscow Populist circles. 1893 helped found Moscow “Workers’ Union”.
1895 staged May Day demonstration near Moscow and was arrested. 1897 exiled for five years to Verkhoyansk. 1902 completed term of exile and was sent under police surveillance to Saratov, where he joined the Saratov Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee.
1903 emigrated; deleg, 2nd Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress. Sided with "Iskra” Bolsheviks. After Congress agent Central Committee Foreign Department.
Campaigned against Mensheviks in Russia and abroad. August 1904 attended Geneve Bolshevik conference. Member. Bureau of Bolshevik Committees.
Bolshevik dcleg at Amsterdam Congress of 2nd International. Helped compile Bolshevik report to this congress. Active in 1905-1907 Revol.
Member, Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. Delegation at Tammerfors Party Conference. Delegation at 3rd-5th Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congresses.
1908 again emigrated. 1909 joined “Vperyod” group and lectured at “Vperyod” Party courses on Capri and in Bologna. 1911 broke with “Vperyod” group.
From 1911 worked in Baku. 1917 assistant chairman. Baku Soviet; ed, newspaper “Izvestiya Bakinskogo Soveta".
Took Menshevik stand. 1920 moved to Moscow and was readmitted to All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Worked for Supreme Economic Council, then chairman, Main Sciences, Museum and Art Establishments Board.
1923-1929 rector, Sverdlov Communist University. Member, Sciences Councils, Institute of Lenin and Commission for Studying and Collating Material on History of October Revol and Communist Party. Candidate member, All-Russian and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee.
Delegation at 12th-16th Party Congresses. From 1930 retired; in his latter years worked for Literature Department, Social of Old Bolsheviks.
Religion
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
Views
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.
Membership
Communist Party member from 1893.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics