Background
YAKHONTOV, Valerian was born in 1907 in Nizhniy Novgorod. Son of a peasant.
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Valerian Ivanovich YAKHONTOV
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1907 graduate Moscow University.
Career
Expelled from high-school for “free-thinking”, passed external matriculation examinations and entered Moscow University. 1902 active in student political movement. 9 February 1902 arrested at student assembly.
Spent six months in prison. 1903 resumed university studies and began to work for Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) organisation. After December 1905 uprising moved to Nizhniy Novgorod and worked for Nizhniy Novgorod Party Committee.
From 1907 active in trade-union and workers’ insurance movement. 1914, together with I.I. Skvortsov and l.G. Smidovich, directed Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Organisation 1916 worked for Minsk Land and City Unions and organized Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) group.
1917 Minsk Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Organization(s) deleg at April Party Conference. Spring 1917 broke with Bolsheviks, joined Moscow “Amalgamated” Organization(s) and elected to Amalgamationist Central Committee. Early 1920 readmitted to Communist Party.
From 1922 Collegium member, People's Commissariat of Justice. Subsequently Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Assistant Prosecutor. Head, Draft Bills Department and member, Small Council of People's Commissar.
Religion
Religion is a tool used by the ruling classes for the masses to relieve their suffering via the act of experiencing religious emotions.
Views
Communist Party is the leading force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of all state and public organizations.
Membership
Communist Party member from 1917.
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1926 (aged 18) -
Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics