Background
KOSTROV, Taras was born in 1901 in a Russian prison, to Social-Dcmocratic revol parents.
KOSTROV, Taras was born in 1901 in a Russian prison, to Social-Dcmocratic revol parents.
1919 helped found underground Bolshevik organisation in Odessa. Secretariat up underground printing press, directed rebel detachment and helped lead Odessa Party organisation. After end of Civil War secretary, Lugansk Okrug Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine.
Directed Kiev newspaper Proletarskaya pravda and contributed to Khar’kov Kommunist. In 1920's chief ed, newspaper Communist Youth League’skaya pravda. Sided with Shatskin-Lominadze-Sten leftist Communist group.
Late 1928 dismissed from editorship of Communist Youth League’skaya pravda. 1929 edited journal Molodaya gvardiya. Later founded journal Za rubezhom.