Background
SMIDOVICH, Sof’ya was born on March 20, 1872 in Tula. Daughter of a lawyer
SMIDOVICH, Sof’ya was born on March 20, 1872 in Tula. Daughter of a lawyer
Teacher by profession. Party propaganda work in Moscow, Tula, Kiev and Kaluga. Frequently arrested and exiled.
From 1914 member, from February 1917 secretary, Moscow Oblast Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks). After 1917 October Revol secretary, Presidium, Moscow Soviet. 1918-1919 Collegium member, Moscow Education Department.
1919-1922 head, Women's Department, Moscow Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. 1922-1924 head, Department of Women Workers and Peasants, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Editor, journals “Rabotnitsa” and “Kommunistka”.
At 14th and 15th Party Congresses elected member, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Centr Control Commission. Also member, Party Collegium, Centr Control Commission. From 1931 deputy chairman, Committee for Improving the Working and Living Conditions of Women, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee.
Presidium member, and deputy chairman, All-Union Social of Old Bolshevik.
Religion doesn't give equal treatment to women and therefore contradicts basic human rights.
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 from 1898.