Education
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
Stučka"s wife, Dora Pliekšāne (1870–1950), was the sister of the Latvian poet Rainis (Jānis Pliekšāns), with whom Stučka shared a room during their law studies at Saint St. Petersburg University. The Latvian socialists split at the turn of the twentieth century. Although Rainis initially supported a free Latvia within a free Russia, he would later support an independent Latvian nation.
During Latvia"s War of Independence, 1918-1920, Stučka and his army of Latvian and Russian soldiers was defeated by the Latvian provisional government.
Despite having the initial support of many Latvians, he lost this by breaking his promise to provide land to individuals, supporting collective farms. After his death in 1932, Stučka"s remains were interred amongst those of other Communist dignitaries in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, near Lenin"s Mausoleum in Moscow"s Red Square.
During the Soviet period, from 1958 to 1990, the University of Latvia was officially known as Pēteris Stučka Latvian State University (Latvian: Pētera Stučkas Latvijas Valsts universitāte). In the German Democratic Republic, Polytechnic Secondary School Number.
55 (German: 55 Polytechnische Oberschule) in Rostock was named "Peter Stucka" in honour of the Latvian Communist.
Stučka, a member of Lenin"s inner circle, believed that the goals of global communism were more important than cultural identity. Rainis, Stučka"s brother-in-law, supported socialism, but stressed that national culture was also important. In the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics during the 1920s, Stučka was one of the main Soviet legal theoreticians who promoted the "revolutionary" or "proletarian" model of socialist legality.
The town of Aizkraukle was named Stučka, after Pēteris Stučka, from the time when it was established in 1960s until the fall of Communism in 1991, when it was renamed Aizkraukle.
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.