Background
SEMKOVSKIY, Semyon was born on March 15, 1882 in Mogilev.
SEMKOVSKIY, Semyon was born on March 15, 1882 in Mogilev.
Graduate Law Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University.
1901 joined Menshevik faction of Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. 1907-1917 in emigration, where he contributed to Menshevik and Social-Democratic publ and worked for Trotsky’s “Pravda” in Vienna. 1917 returned to Russia and became member, Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (Mensheviks).
From 1918 lived and worked in Ukraine. 1920 broke with Mensheviks. From 1921 chairman, Sciences Committee, Main Board of Sciences Museums and Sciences and Art Institutions, Ukraine People's Commissariat of Education.
From 1926 head Chair of Marxism-Leninism, Ukraine Academy of Sciences. Professor of philosophy, Khar’kov University and other Ukraine higher educational establishments. Head. Nature Dialectics Section, All-Russian Association of Marxist-Leninist Research Institute.
Member, Ukraine Central Executive Committee. Arrested by State Security organs.
Religious edicts impose irrational rules on people’s behaviour.
Every Soviet citizen has rights to express his or her opinion, but it should be in accordance with the general interests of the society.
Member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1929.