Mikhail Semyonovich Chudov (Russian: Михаил Семёнович Чудов; September 17, 1893 – October 30, 1937) was a Russian revolutionary and

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politician. He and his wife were shot during the

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Early years

Mikhail Semenovich Chudov was born on September 17, 1893 in the village of Khoneevo,

Bezhetsky District Bezhetsky District (russian: Бе́жецкий райо́н) is an administrative and municipalLaw #4-ZO district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast and borders with Molokovsky District ...

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. He worked as a printer in

Saint Petersburg 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 ...

. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the

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("RSDLP(b)") in 1913.

Career as a Communist official

Chudov participated in the

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and

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revolutions of 1917. In 1918-1920 he was the chairman of the Bezhetsk party committee and the district executive committee. He later became Chairman of the Tver Provincial Executive Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the RCP(b), Secretary of the District Committee in Rostov-on-Don, and a member of the North Caucasian Regional Committee of the

All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

("CPSU(b)"). In 1928-1936 he was the 2nd Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee, a deputy to

Sergei Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...

, the 1st Secretary. He was a delegate to the 11th-17th Congresses of the CPSU(b), a candidate member of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) (1923-1925), a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) (1925-1937), and a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. He was removed from office, arrested and executed during the

. His wife, L. K. Shaposhnikova, was also repressed and shot. On March 17, 1956 during the

Khrushchev thaw The Khrushchev Thaw ( rus, хрущёвская о́ттепель, r=khrushchovskaya ottepel, p=xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲ:ɪpʲɪlʲ or simply ''ottepel'')William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 is the period ...

, Mikhail Chudov was posthumously rehabilitated.

References

Anatoly Rybakov Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (russian: Анато́лий Нау́мович Рыбако́в; – 23 December 1998) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist ''Children of the Arbat ''trilogy, the novel ''Heavy Sand' ...

: '' Jahre des Terrors. Roman. Deutsch von Juri Elperin.'' 440 Seiten. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv 11590), München 1992,

External links

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