Background
ANISIMOV, V. was born in 1878.
ANISIMOV, V. was born in 1878.
From 1902 in Social-Democratic movement. Party work in Saratov and Kazan’ Provinces. 1907 elected 2nd State Duma.
Deputy, Saratov Province. Member, Social-Democratic Faction Committee, 2nd State Duma. In the trial involving the Social-Democratic Faction sentenced to hard labor.
From 1912 in exile in Irkutsk, where he cotributed to legal Social-Democratic press After 1917 February Revol returned to Petrograd and joned Defcnsist-Mensheviks. Member, Executive Committee, PetrogTad Soviet of Workers and Soldiers’ Deputy.
Elected member, Central Executive Committee of 1st convocation. 1918-1919 in Siberia. Helped publish Socialist-Revol newspaper Nashe delo (Our Cause) in Irkutsk.
1921 member, Constituent Assembly, Far Eastern Republic. Represented Mensheviks in coalition government of Far Eastern Republic. Later pedag work; as deleg of Social-Democratic Faction, 2nd Stale Duma, switched to the Bolsheviks at 5th Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress.
Arrested by State Security organs.