Background
VOYKOV, Pyotr was born in 1888 in Kerch’. Son of a teacher.
VOYKOV, Pyotr was born in 1888 in Kerch’. Son of a teacher.
Completed high school.
While at school active in SocDemocratic circles. Expelled from 6th grade for political unreliability. 1903 joined Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party.
1905 attended Congress of Southern Social-Democratic Orgs in Melitopol’. Went underground to avoid arrest by Tsarist police. 1907-1917 lived in Switzerland.
May 1917 returned to Russia. October 1917 secretary, Yekaterinburg Oblast TradeUnion Bureau. Then chairman, Yekaterinburg City Duma.
After 1917 October Revol chairman, Ural Plants Council. Then Lbal Oblast Food Commissar. 1919 appointed Council of People's Commissar representative on bd of Centr Union of Consumer Social.
1920 Collegium member. People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade. 1921 chairman, Soviet-Polish Commission to Implement 1921 Riga Treaty.
From October 1924 Soviet representative in Poland.
Religion is an instrument of the ruling classes to instill in the masses the religious conviction that their current suffering will lead to eventual happiness.
Communist Party is the leading force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of all state and public organizations.
Communist Party member from 1917.