Alexei Yegorovich Badayev (russian: Алексе́й Его́рович Бада́ев; – 3 November 1951) was a
Soviet
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politician, functionary and a nominal head of state of the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
during the leadership of
Joseph Stalin
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.
Biography
Badayev was born at
Yuryevo in the
Oryol Governorate
Oryol Governorate (russian: Орловская губерния, ''Orlovskaya guberniya'') or the Government of Oryol, was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1 ...
of the
Russian Empire
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in 1883. He joined the
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
faction of the
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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in 1904, and was an active member of the Metal Workers' Union from its inception in 1906.
From 1912 to 1914 he was a Deputy of the Fourth
State Duma
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.
[ In 1912-13, he also worked on the Bolshevik newspaper ]Pravda
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. In 1914, along with the other members of the Bolshevik group in the Fourth Duma (apart from the double agent Roman Malinovsky
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), and was deported the following year to Turkestan
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. He later wrote reminiscences of this period which were translated into English as
The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma
'.
Badayev returned to Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
after the February Revolution
The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...
in 1917 and became actively involved in the city duma, and in the management of food distribution. After the Bolshevik Revolution
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he was appointed chairman of the Food Commissariat for the North West region of Russia.
In September 1919 Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
consumer commune (shortly Petrocommune) was established by Decree of the Sovnarkom
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"On consumer communities" dated 16 March 1919. It was the germ of the cooperative sector during the "war communism
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According to Soviet histo ...
". Badayev was the founding chairman of the Petrocommune governance. Энциклопедия & Словари >> Энциклопедия Санкт-Петербурга >> Петрокоммуна.
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In the first half of the 1920s he worked as Deputy Chairman of the Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
(later the city was renamed Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
) gubispolkom (ispolkom The Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, commonly known as the Ispolkom (russian: исполком, исполнительный комитет, literally " executive committee") was a self-appointed executive committee of the Petrograd So ...
of gubernija
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Gub ...
). He was a member of the Central Committee
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of the All-Union Communist Party from 1925 to 1951[ - one of only a handful of members of that body to survive the ]Great Purge
The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...
. He was Chairman of the USSR Central Consumers' Union ( Tsentrosoyuz), 1930-38. From August 1937 to July 1938 he was the People's Commissar of Food Industry of the RSFSR,[ and from 19 July 1938 to 4 March 1944 he was the .][ He died in Moscow in 1951.
]
See also
* Badayev warehouses
References
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1883 births
1951 deaths
People from Oryol Oblast
People from Oryol Governorate
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members
Old Bolsheviks
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Members of the 4th State Duma of the Russian Empire
Russian Constituent Assembly members
Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members
First convocation members of the Soviet of the Union
Second convocation members of the Soviet of the Union
Heads of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
People's commissars and ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
All-Russian Central Executive Committee members
Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1938–1947
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery