Background
GOPNER, Serafima was born on April 7, 1880 in Kherson. Daughter of a merchant.
GOPNER, Serafima was born on April 7, 1880 in Kherson. Daughter of a merchant.
From 1901 in revol movement. 1901 joined Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, 1903 joined Bolsheviks. Agitation and propaganda work in Odessa, Kiev, Nikolayev and Yekaterinoslav.
1905 arrested for the first time. During 1905-1907 Revol member, Yekaterinoslav Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. 1910 emigrated to France.
Member, Paris Bolshevik group. Early 1916 returned to Russia. Stayed in Irkutsk, moved from there to Yekaterinoslav.
Illegal work at Bryansk metallurgical plant. Early 1917 arrested and imprisoned. March 1917 released; after 1917 February Revol member, Yekaterinoslav Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee and Yekaterinoslav Soviet.
Delegation, 7th (April) Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Conference. Participated in 1917 October Revol and the Civil War in Ukraine. 1918 in Oryol with Foreign Bureau, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine as secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine.
1919 Ukraine Deputy People's Commissar of Education. 1920 directed political educational courses for 12th Army. 1920-1925 head, Agitation and Propaganda Department, Yekaterinoslav, Donetsk, then Khar’kov Province Party Committees.
From 1927 ed, newspaper Vseukrainskiy proletariy. 1918-1922 member. All-Russian Central Executive Committee. 1922-1929 member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee.
1927-1938 member, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. Delegation, 1st - 7th Communist International Congresses. 1928-1943 candidate member, Communist International Executive Committee.
1929-1939 head Agitation and Propaganda Department, Communist International Excc Committee. 1938-1945 deputy chief ed, periodical Istoriclieskiy zhurnal. From 1945 member, Learned Council, Institute of Marxism-Leninism, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Also teaching and research work. Wrote memoirs and works on Party history. During the last years of life pensioner.
Religion is bad because it makes people base the way they run their lives on a falsehood.
Every person has rights to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could be expressed if it was in accordance with the general interests of Soviet society.
Communist Party member from 1903.