Background
PANYUSHKIN, V. was born in 1888.
PANYUSHKIN, V. was born in 1888.
Party work in Saint St. Petersburg and with Baltic Fleet. After 1917 February Revol member, Kronstadt and Petrograd Soviet. Fought in Civil war; April 1918 appointed Tula Province special military comissar to combat counterrevol.
Commanded armed workers and, sailors squads. Fought on Eastern Front, then appointed special military comissar for Volga and Ural region to combat counterrevol. After Civil War did Party work in Tula then in Simbirsk.
1919-1920 exec organisation and instructor, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1921 tried to form “Workers and Peasants’ Socialist Party,” leading to his expulsion from Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1922 reinstated in Communist Party.
Worked in Donbass, for Supreme Economic Council then for Soviet trade mission in Germany. From 1956 pensioner.
Communist Party member from 1907.