Background
SMIDOVICH, Pyotr was born on May 7, 1874 in Rogachev, Mogilev Province.
SMIDOVICH, Pyotr was born on May 7, 1874 in Rogachev, Mogilev Province.
1892-1894 studied at Moscow University. Graduate Electr Engineer High School, Paris.
Active in student political movement at Moscow University. 1894 expelled from University and exiled to Tula for revol work. 1895 arrested for founding illegal Social-Democratic circles.
Late 1895 went abroad. After studies in Paris worked at factories in France and Belgium. 1898 returned to Russia with the passport of a Belgian worker and was hired as electrician at Bryansk Steel Plant.
Then worked in Yekaterinoslav, Moscow and Saint St. Petersburg. Late 1900 arrested for membership of Saint St. Petersburg Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee, spent one year in investigative custody and then, as a foreigner, was deported from Russia without right of return. Shortly afterwards returned to Russia with another passport.
1901-1902 worked as “Iskra” agent, delivering newspapers from Marseilles to Batum. 1902 worked for underground printing press in Uman’, which was then printing “Iskra”. After 2nd Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress sided with Bolsheviks.
1905 propaganda work in Baku and Tula. December 1905 played active part in armed uprising in Moscow. 1905-1908 member, Moscow Okrug Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee, then member, Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee.
Founded in Moscow illegal trade-union bureau. 1906 dcleg at Stockholm Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress. Until 1912 worked at Moscow Streetcar Depot.
From 1912 electr engineering at Moscow “1886" Power Plant (renamed after him following the October Revol). Member, Saint St. Petersburg, Moscow, Baku, Ural and Northern Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committees. During YVW 1 sided with Bolsheviks’ defeatist stand.
1916 member, Moscow Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks). After 1917 February Revol elected member and Presidium member, Moscow Soviet of Workers and Soldiers’ Department. After 1917 October Revol Presidium member, Supreme Economic Council.
1918 chairman, Moscow Soviet. Simultageously head, Power Department, Supreme Economic Council. Late 1918— 1919 chairman, Moscow Province Economic Council.
1920 head, Moscow Education Department. 1920-1922 deputy chairman. Commission for Famine Relief.
1920 member, Soviet deleg at peace talks with Poland. From 1917 Presidium member, All-Russian, then Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee. 1921 at 10th Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress elected member, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Centr Control Commission.
From 1924 chairman, Commission for Apportioning Land to Jewish Workers, Presidium, Soviet of Nationalities, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee. Chairman, Committee for Assistance to the Peoples of the Outlying North. From 1927 also chairman, Centr Bureau of Regional Studies.
As long as the public believes in religion, they will not attempt to make any genuine effort to understand and overcome the real source of their suffering.
Communist Party is the leading force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of all state and public organizations.
Communist Party member from 1898.