Isaak Mironovich Kreisberg ( uk, Ісак Миронович Крейсберг) was
Soviet political figure of
Ukraine.
Born in 1898 in
Kiev
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, Kreisberg was taking part in a revolutionary movement since 1912. In 1914 he joined the
RSDLP and in 1915 was arrested and given three years of
katorga (correctional labor) in arrest-companies of Kiev (released 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 March 1917 Kreisberg was elected to secretary of Kiev committee of
RSDLP(b)
"Hymn of the Bolshevik Party"
, headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow
, general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first)Mikhail Gorbachev (last)
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and in April - June 1917 he was a member of the Southwestern regional committee of RSDLP(b) and executive committee of the Kiev council of workers' deputies.
On October 27, 1917 Kreisberg became a member of the Kiev Revolutionary Committee. Next day he was arrested, but later released. On January 15, 1918 Kreisberg once again became a member of the Kiev Military Revolutionary Committee and participated in fighting against the Ukrainian forces. With establishment of Soviet power in the city, in January - February 1918 he was a people's commissar of Kiev and a deputy of people's secretary of finance. In 1918 Kreisberg participated in underground revolutionary committee of
Odessa
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and one of uprising leaders in
Katerynoslav
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on December 28, 1918. Kreisberg was a member of the central committee of
Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine at the 1st and 2nd party congresses. In January 1919 he participated in the peasant congress of Poltava Governorate, but was arrested by members of White movement faction and shot on January 16, 1919.
External links
Isaak Kreisbergat the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia
at Poltava city history portal
at the
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
1898 births
1919 deaths
Bolsheviks
Executed Ukrainian people
People executed by Russia by firearm
Politicians from Kyiv
Ukrainian Jews
Ukrainian revolutionaries
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