Background
NEVSKIY, Vladimir was born on May 14, 1876 in Rostov-on-Don. Son of a merchant.
NEVSKIY, Vladimir was born on May 14, 1876 in Rostov-on-Don. Son of a merchant.
1897 graduate high-school. 1898 and 1900 studied at Moscow University.
1898 expelled from university, arrested and exiled to Rostov, where he worked for Don Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. 1900 returned to Moscow University and resumed Party propaganda among workers. 1901 exiled to Voronezh, where he founded the “Struggle Fund,” an “Iskra”-affiliated Social-Democratic organisation.
1904 moved to Geneva and met Lenin. January 1905, on orders from Bureau of Bolshevik Committees, returned to Russia and agitated for convocation of 3rd Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress. October 1905 elected deleg to Tammerfors Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Conference.
1906-1908 member. Executive Commission, Petrograd Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. Early 1908 arrested and 1909 acquitted in trial of Saint St. Petersburg Party Committee’s Military Organisation 1910 worked in Rostov, then in Khar’kov.
Summer 1913 co-opted candidate member, Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party but arrested shortly afterwards and deported to Poltava. 1913 deleg, Poronin Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Central Committee Conference. Until 1917 February Revol carried out underground Party work in Permanent’ and Yekaterinburg.
1917 helped direct Military Organization(s), Petrograd Party Committee and Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks). Member, editorial board, Bolshevik newspapers “Soldatskaya pravda” and “Derevenskaya bednota”. Active part in 1917 October Revol.
Member, Petrograd Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation. After Revol until March 1919 People's Commissar of Means of Communication. 1919-1920 Presidium member and deputy chairman, All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
Simultaneously head, Department for Rural Work, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Foreign a while sided with workers’ opposition. 1921 rector, Sverdlov Communist University.
From 1922 deputy head, Commission for the Study of Party History and the History of the October Revol, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). From 1924 director, Lenin Library, Moscow. Wrote number of works and articles on history of Communist Party, Populism, “Liberation of Labor” group, first workers’ organizations in Russia in 1870’s and 1905-1907 Revol.
Foreign a number of years his studies of Party history were used as textbooks. Edited and compiled various collections of Party documents. 1935 arrested by State Security organs.
Idea of God is a virus of human mind.
All policy decisions should be made in the light of the continued, permanent development of the theory of Marxism–Leninism.
Communist Party member from 1897.