Alexei Vasilievich Medvedev (Russian: Алексей Васильевич Медведев; 16 March 1884 – 30 October 1937) was a Soviet politician and trade union leader.

Biography

Medvedev was born in to a Russian working-class family. He graduated from the village parish school and worked in a factory. In 1904 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

RSDLP The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; in , ''Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)''), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a Socialism , s ...

. He led underground revolutionaries and was arrested several and actively participated in the

1905 Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution of 1905,. also known as the First Russian Revolution,. occurred on 22 January 1905, and was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The mass unrest was directed again ...

. In 1917 he was a member of the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP(b) and was a participant in the

October Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...

in Petrograd. From 1918 to 1920 he was the chairman of the Kozelsk district committee of the Russian Communist Party (b). He was a participant in the

Russian Civil War , date = October Revolution, 7 November 1917 – Yakut revolt, 16 June 1923{{Efn, The main phase ended on 25 October 1922. Revolt against the Bolsheviks continued Basmachi movement, in Central Asia and Tungus Republic, the Far East th ...

where he organized

Red Guard Red Guards () were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes According to a Red Guard le ...

units. From 1921 he secretary of the Belotserkovsky (Kyiv province) county committee of the Communist Party (b) of Ukraine, then in political work in the Crimean Labour Army. In 1922-1923 he Chairman of the Kharkov Provincial Council of Trade Unions. In 1923-1924 he was Chairman of the Central Control Commission of the CP (b) of Ukraine and People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection of the Ukrainian SSR. From May 1924 to January 1925 he was 2nd

Secretary of the Central Committee The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was responsible for managing and directing the day-to-day operations of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, while the Politburo was charged with the ...

of the Communist Party (b) of Ukraine. From January 1925 to September 1927, he was the responsible (first) secretary of the Yekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk) provincial committee (from August 1925 - district committee) of the CP (b) of Ukraine. From October 1927 to November 1929 he was Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) of Ukraine. Medvedev was a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party from 1924 to 1930. From 1930 to 1934 he was a member of the Central Control Commission of the VKP (b) and from 1931 to 1934 he was a candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission. From November 1929, Medvedev at the disposal of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b). From December 1929 he was Secretary of the Union Council of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. From 1935 he was a member of the

Supreme Court of the Soviet Union The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (russian: Верховный Суд СССР) was the highest court of the Soviet Union during its existence. The Supreme Court of the USSR included a Military Collegium and other elements which were not typic ...

. Medvedev was arrested on 20 August 1937 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 ...

. He was sentenced by the

Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (Russian: Военная коллегия Верховного суда СССР, ''Voennaya kollegiya Verkhovnogo suda SSSR'') was created in 1924 by the Supreme Court of the Sovie ...

to death and was shot on 30 October 1937. Alexei Medvedev was rehabilitated on 3 March 1956.

References

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