Background
SYRTSOV, Sergey was born in 1893 in Yekaterinoslav Province.
SYRTSOV, Sergey was born in 1893 in Yekaterinoslav Province.
1912-1916 studied at Petrograd Polytech Institute.
Participated in illegal student organizations. From 1914 revol propaganda among Petrograd workers. 1916 exiled to Irkutsk Province.
After 1917 February Revol returned to Petrograd and worked as propagandist. Then chairman, Rostov Soviet and Rostov Military Revol Committee. 1918-1919 military comissar of a div at the front.
1920 chairman, Odessa Province Party Committee. 1921-1923 head, Accounting and Distribution Department, Party Central Committee. From 1924 head, Agitation and Propaganda Department, Party Central Committee.
Presidium member, Communist Academy. Editor, journal “Kommunisticheskaya revolyutsiya”. From 1926 secretary, Siberian Kray Party Committee.
From 1929 chairman, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Council of People's Commissar. April 1930 headed opposition bloc. Late 1930 replaced as chairman, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Council of People's Commissar, then worked as director, Nogin Military Chemical Plant.
1924-1927 candidate member, 1927-1930 member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1918 sided with Leftist Communists and opposed Brest Peace Treaty. 1920-1921, during the trade-union controversy, sided with Trotsky.
Arrested by State Security organs.
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.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the leading and guiding force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of its political system, of all state and public organizations.
Communist Party member trom 1913.