Artemic (Artashes) Bagratovich Khalatov (Russian: Артемий Багратович Халатов; 15 (27) April 1894 – 26 September 1937 or 27 October 1938)(sources differ) was a

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 ...

revolutionary and

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politician who was the director of the Soviet Union's State Publishing House, from 1927 to 1932. He was executed during 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 ...

Biography

Khalatov was born Artashes Khalatiants in

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. Although official biographies described him as coming from a working-class background, more recent research has shown that he was born into the family of a wealthy

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merchant. He was a student in the Moscow Commercial Institute and joined a Marxist circle while studying. After meeting

Anastas Mikoyan Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (; russian: Анаста́с Ива́нович Микоя́н; hy, Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան; 25 November 1895 – 21 October 1978) was an Armenian Communist revolutionary, Old Bolshevik an ...

he became involved in revolutionary activities. 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 ...

of March 1917, Khalatov became deputy chairman of the Moscow City Food Committee. From October 26, 1917 he served as Deputy Extraordinary Commissioner, from the beginning of 1918, as Moscow Extraordinary Commissioner for Food and Transport. During the Civil War of 1917-1923 he was in leading positions in the People's Commissariat of Food and the Main Directorate for the supply of the army. He was sent to Ukraine in order to negotiate with

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(Hetman of Ukraine in 1918) for food supplies, but was arrested and then returned to the

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. He became a member of the

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and a permanent member of the Moscow City Council. From to 1928 he was Chairman of the (Tsentral'naya komissiya po uluchsheniyu byta uchyonikh - TSEKUBU) under the Councils of People's Commissars of the RSFSR and the

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and resolved issues relating to the supply of scientists. From 1922 he served as a member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Railways, and in 1927, he became a member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Education, chairman of the board of the State Publishing House and of its successor, the

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. He played a significant role in the development of censorship and the ideologization of Soviet literature. Chubar and Khalatov 1936

From 1935 to 1937 Khalatov was head of the Central Committee of the . He actively participated in the

of 1936-1938 by publishing defamatory articles about various groups of people who were already the focus of the Soviet state security (

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

). During this period he wrote and published works on political economy as well. However, his loyalty to the party line did not prevent him from falling victim to the purge. In 1937 Khalatov was expelled from the Communist Party. Arrested in 1938, he was executed on October 27, 1938. Artemic Khalatov was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956. His body is buried at the Donskoye cemetery in Moscow.

References

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