Background
KEDROV, Mikhail was born in 1878 in Moscow. Son of a notary.
Revolutionary state security official
KEDROV, Mikhail was born in 1878 in Moscow. Son of a notary.
Studied at Moscow University and Yaroslavl’ Lyceum. 1897 entered Moscow University.
1899 expelled from university for revol activities. Joined Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party while a student at Yaroslavl’ Lyceum. Worked in Nizhniy Novgorod, Yaroslavl' and Simferopol’ Social- Democratic organisation.
1904 helped to dig a tunnel under Taganka Prison in Moscow to liberate N. E. Bauman. Early 1905 helped supply arms to Moscow detachments of armed workers. October 1905 in Kostroma.
Member, Kostroma Bolshevik Committee. Helped to organize detachments of armed workers. After defeat of December armed rebellion worked in Tver’ and St. Petersburg Bolshevik organisation.
Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Central Committee agent for dissemination of Party lit. 1908 while director of Zerno Publ House published collection of Lenin’s articles entitled Za 12 let (Foreign Twelve Years). 1908-1911 imprisoned for publishing illegal lit.
1912 emigrated to Switzerland. 1916 returned to Russia on Lenin’s orders. From 1916 dr on the Caucasian Front;March-April 1917 chairman, Sherif-Khanes Soviet.
From May 1917 in Petrograd. Member. Military Org, Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) and All-Russian Bureau of Bolshevik Military Org. Ed, newspaper Soldatskaya pravda.
Helped found newspapers Rabochiy i soldat and Soldat: from November 1917 Collegium member, People’s Commissariat of Military Affairs. Commissar for Demobilization of the Old Army. From August 1918 commander.
Northeastern Sector, Western Barrier. From September 1918 member, Revol-Military Committee, 6th Army, Northern Front. From March 1919 chairman, Special Department, All-Russian Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation.
Collegium member, People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs. Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee plenipotentiary for Southern and Western Fronts. Participated in defense of Petrograd.
1921-1923 Labor and Defense Council plenipotentiary for the Southern Caspian fishing industry. Member, Baku Soviet; 1924-1925 with Supreme Economic Council and People’s Commissariat of Health. 1926-1927 assistant prosecutor, Department of the Military Prosecutor’s Office, USSR Supreme Court.
1931-1934 Presidium member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic State Planning Committee. Director. Military Health Institute. Elected member, All-Union Centr Executive Committee.
Late 1938 retired because of poor health. Streets in Moscow, Arkhangelsk and Vologda named after him. April 1939 arrested by State Security organs.
Religion is a tool used by the ruling classes for the masses to relieve their suffering via the act of experiencing religious emotions.
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 1901.