Background
AMELIN, Mikhail was born on December 4, 1896 in village Solomina, Kursk Province. Son of a peasant.
AMELIN, Mikhail was born on December 4, 1896 in village Solomina, Kursk Province. Son of a peasant.
1918 graduate courses for military comissar. 1920 graduate Poltrava infantry officers’ courses. 1923 graduate Moscow Higher Military Instructors College.
1930 graduate advanced officers' courses.
1910-1915 carpenter at a Donbass plant, mine timberman, joiner. 1915 drafted into Russian Army, completed military training and appointed platoon commander. Sent to penal company for anti-war propaganda, fled to Urals and worked at a plant there.
After 1917 February Revol returned to Russian Army and was elected company commander. From 1918 in Red Army, fought against the Germans. 1919-1921 comissar-exlraordinary for supplies to Yekaterinoslav sector of front.
Deputy chairman, Odessa Military-Revol Tribunal. Plenipotentiary, Revol-Military Council, 3rd Ukraine Army. Regt comissar; chief of a combat sector.
Comissar of a military cadets detachment. Political officer with a composite cadets division 1921-1928 comissar at military training institutions in Poltava and Kiev.
1928-1934 assistant commander for political work, 14th Corps. Deputy head, Polit Board, Ukraine Military district. From April 1934 member, Revol-Military Council, and head, Polit Board, Ukraine (from August 1935 Kiev) Military district.
Member. Military Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense. During Civil War helped to crush anti-Soviet peasant revolts and fought against forces of Ukraine anarchist leader Makhno. From 1933 member, Organization(s) Bureau, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine.
1934 deleg at 17th Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress. 1937 arrested by State Securiky organs.
Religion is a cause of numerous conflicts and bloody wars throughout the history of mankind.
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 1917.