Background
DZERZHINSKAYA, Sofiya was born in 1882 in Warsaw. Daughter of a white-collar worker
DZERZHINSKAYA, Sofiya was born in 1882 in Warsaw. Daughter of a white-collar worker
Studied in high school and later at Warsaw Conservatory.
1905 joined Social-Democratic Party in Poland. Party duties connected with publishing and distributing Social-Democratic literature Later propagandist; December 1906 arrested for the first time and imprisoned.
After release continued Party work in various Polish cities. 1908 Warsaw Committee deleg to 6th Congress of Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lith in Prague. Then returned to Poland.
September 1909 arrested and after three months in prison deported. While a member of Cracow Section, Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lith, worked for Main Party Board. Late 1910 went on Party orders to Poland, where she was again arrested and exiled to Irkutsk Province.
1912 fled from exile and escaped abroad. After 1917 October Revol worked for secretariat of emigre funds in Switzerland. From 1918 worked at Soviet embassy in Bern;January 1918 returned to Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and worked in Polish Commissariat, People's Commissariat of Nationality Affairs.
Later worked for national minorities subdept. People's Commissariat of Education and in Sverdlov Communist University. From 1924 exec secretary, Polish Bureau, Agitation and Propaganda Department, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
From 1929 research and exec ed, Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute. From 1937 worked for Communist International Executive Committee. From 1946 retired; deputy chairman, Centr Board, Soviet-Polish Friendship Social.
Communist Party member from 1905.