Background
Yakovleva was born to middle class parents in Moscow in 1884 and joined the Bolshevik Party when she was 20.
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Varvara Nikolayevna YAKOVLEVA
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Began Party Work in student circles in Moscow. From early 1905 propagandist in workers’ circles. After 1905 December Revolt Party work in Moscow.
1906 arrested; 1908 re-arrested. Between these arrests legal and illegal Party work in Moscow. 1910 helped re-establish Moscow Party organisation.
Arrested and exiled for four years to Narym. Fled abroad; 1912 illegally returned to Russia. Central Committee agent for Moscow Oblast and member, Central Committee’s Moscow Oblast Bureau.
Early 1913 arrested and returned to Narym but fled again. On her arrival in Saint St. Petersburg at once arTested and exiled to Astrakhan’ Province. After release in early 1916 joined Central Committee’s Moscow Oblast Bureau.
From January 1917 secretary, Moscow Oblast Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks). During 1917 October Revol member of five-man bd directing Moscow revolt. 1917 Collegium member, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
From January 1918 business manager, Supreme Economic Council. From July 1918 Collegium member, All-Russian Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation. 1919-1920 Collegium member, People's Commissariat of Food.
From summer 1920 member, Siberian Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and head, Siberian Polit Communications Board. From December 1920 secretary, Moscow Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. From early 1921 secretary, Siberian Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
From 1922 head, Main Vocational Training Board. Then Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Deputy People's Commissar of Education. From 1930 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissar of Finance.
Member, All-Russian and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee. 1918 sided with Leftist Communists. During 1920-1921 trade-union controversy sided with “buffer” group which later joined Trotsky.
1923 signed 46-signature Trotskyist declaration. 1924-1926 organisation work in Trotskyist Center, then withdrew from opposition. Arrested by State Security organs.
Religion
The hierarchical structure of most religions is anti-democratic, and thus offends basic human rights.
Views
All policy decisions should be made in the light of the continued, permanent development of the theory of Marxism–Leninism.
Membership
From March 1918 on she was a member of the board of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs and worked in the Moscow Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation, the Moscow secret police. From January 1919, as a board member of the People"s Commissariat of Food, she led food inspections and parties that requisitioned food as a punitive measure. Following the Third Moscow Trial in 1937, she was arrested and accused of being a member of a terrorist group.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union