- Pēteris Stučka
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office =Member of the 2ndState Duma of the Russian Empire
term_start =February 1907
term_end =July 1907
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monarch =Nicholas II
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constituency =Cēsis District
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office2 =People's Commissar for Justice,Russian SFSR
term_start2 =1918-06-16
term_end2 =1918
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primeminister2 =Lenin
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predecessor2 =Isaak Z. Shteinberg
successor2 =Dmitrii I. Kurskii
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office3 =Prime Minister of theLatvian Socialist Soviet Republic
term_start3 =1918-12-17
term_end3 =1920-01-13
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office4 =Deputy People's Commissar for Justice,RSFSR
term_start4 =1921
term_end4 =1923
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primeminister4 =Lenin
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office5 =President of theSupreme Court
of the RSFSR
term_start5 =1923
term_end5 =1932
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birth_date =OldStyleDate|July 26|1865|July 14
birth_place =Koknese civil parish,Governorate of Livonia ,Russian Empire
death_date =1932-01-25
death_place =Moscow ,USSR
nationality =SovietLatvia n
party =Communist Party of Latvia
spouse =Dora Pliekšāne
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alma_mater =St. Petersburg University
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profession =Lawyer
religion =Atheist
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footnotes =Pēteris Stučka, sometimes spelt Pyotr Ivanovich Stuchka ( _ru. Пётр Иванович Стучка, _de. Peter Stutschka (in contemporary writings); b. OldStyleDate|July 26|1865|July 14 in
Koknese civil parish,Governorate of Livonia — d.January 25 1932 inMoscow ) was the head of theBolshevik government inLatvia during theLatvian War of Independence , one of the leaders of theNew Current movement in the late 19th century, a prolific writer and translator, an editor of major Latvian and Russian socialist and communist newspapers and periodicals, a prominentjurist and educator, and the first president of the Supreme Court of theSoviet Union . Stučka's wife, Dora Pliekšāne (1870–1950), was the sister of the Latvian poetRainis (Jānis Pliekšāns), with whom Stučka shared a room during their law studies atSt. Petersburg University .In the USSR during the 1920s, Stučka was one of the main Soviet legal theoreticians who promoted the "revolutionary" or "proletarian" model of
socialist legality .After his death in 1932, Stučka's remains were interred amongst those of other Communist dignitaries in the
Kremlin Wall Necropolis , nearLenin's Mausoleum in Moscow'sRed Square .Places and organizations named in honour of Stučka
* During the Soviet period, from 1958 to 1990, the
University of Latvia was officially known as Pēteris Stučka Latvian State University ( _lv. Pētera Stučkas Latvijas Valsts universitāte).
* The town ofAizkraukle was named Stučka, after Pēteris Stučka, from the time when it was established in 1960s until the fall ofCommunism in 1991, when it was renamed Aizkraukle.
* In theGDR , Polytechnical Secondary School No. 55 ( _de. 55. Polytechnische Oberschule) inRostock was named "Peter Stucka" in honour of the Latvian Communist.Works
A comprehensive bibliography of the works by and about Stučka, with explanatory material in both Latvian and Russian, is:
*cite book |last= Olmane |first= P. |authorlink= |coauthors= Pūce, O. |title= Pēteris Stučka: Biobibliogrāfiskais rādītājs / Петр Стучка: Биобиблиографический указатель |year= 1988 |publisher= Viļa Lāča Latvijas PSR Valsts bibliotēka |location= Riga |language= Latvian and Russian |oclc= 22544777
Further reading
*cite book |last= Stuchka |first=P.I. |others= Robert Sharlet, Peter B. Maggs, and Piers Beirne (eds.) |title= Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism |year= 1988 |publisher= M.E. Sharpe |location= Armonk, N.Y. |isbn= 0-87332-473-0 |oclc=17353762
External links
* [http://sites-of-memory.de/main/rigastucka.html Memorial to Pēteris Stučka in Riga at sites-of-memory.de]
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