Background
Gots, Abram was born in 1882 in Moscow into a rich RussianJewish family.
Gots, Abram was born in 1882 in Moscow into a rich RussianJewish family.
Younger brother of M. Gots, who was leader of the SR Party until his death in 1906. Member of the SR terrorist group. After the 1905 Revolution, sentenced to 8 years hard labour, 1907.
After the February Revolution 1917, leaderoftheSR faction in the Petrograd Soviet. Elected chairman of the VTSIK by the 1st Congress of Workers and Soldiers’ Deputies in June 1917. Active opponent of the Bolshevik take-over in November 1917.
Arrested by the Bolsheviks, 1920. One of a group of SR leaders sentenced to death at the first show trial of anti-communist socialists in the USSR, 1922. Pardoned and, according to Soviet sources, able to work in Soviet administrative offices.
As the place and the exact date of death is not given, this information sounds suspect. According to Pamiai', issue 3, shot in AlmaAta.
Central Committee member, Socialist-Rcvol Party.