Background
MANDEL’SHTAM, Nikolay was born in 1879.
MANDEL’SHTAM, Nikolay was born in 1879.
Started work at age 14. 1902 joined Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. Member, Voronezh Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee.
1902-1908 professional Party work. After Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party schism joined Bolsheviks. Worked in Vilnius; member, Northwestern, then Riga and Yekaterinoslav Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee.
1905-1907 member, Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee and exec organizer, Moscow’s Railroad Rayon. Worked as propagandist. 1908 unskilled factory worker
1910-1913 in emigration. 1913-1917 electrician. Arrested four times; spent 18 month in prison and two years in exile.
Escaped twice; after 1917 February Revol member, Executive Committee and head, Labor Department, Nikolayev Soviet, December 1917 sided with internationalists. 1917-1920 worked for Metalworkers’ Union. Late 1919 returned to Bolshevik fold.
1920 deputy chairman, Main Board of Electr Engineer Indiana. 1921 secretary, Turkastani Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and secretary, Turkm Commission, All-Russian Central Executive Committee. From 1924 head, Organization(s) Department, Moscow’s Bauman Rayon Party Committee.
Then deputy head, Organization(s) Department, Moscow Party Committee. 1926-1928 head, Agitation and Propaganda Department, Moscow Party Committee.
As long as the public believes in religion, they will not attempt to make any genuine effort to understand and overcome the real source of their suffering.
Communist Party is the leading force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of all state and public organizations.
Communist Party member 1902-1917 and from 1919.