Background
Berzin, Ian was born on October 11, 1881 in Latvia. Son of a peasant.
Berzin, Ian was born on October 11, 1881 in Latvia. Son of a peasant.
Veteran Latvian communist leader. Joined the SDs, 1902. Emigrated, 1908. Participated in the Zimmerwald conference, 1915.
Member of the Central Committee of the Latvian Social Democratic Party, 1917. Soviet Ambassador to Switzerland, 1918. Soviet Minister of Education in Latvia, 1919.
Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, 1919-1920. Soviet Ambassador to Finland, 1921. Deputy Ambassador to Britain, 1921-1925.
Chief of the Central Archives of the USSR and the RSFSR, 1932. Arrested, died in the Gulag.
Religion is a tool used by the ruling classes for the masses to relieve their suffering via the act of experiencing religious emotions.
All policy decisions should be made in the light of the continued, permanent development of the theory of Marxism–Leninism.
