- Aleksey Kiselev
Aleksey Semenovich Kiselev (
1879 -October 30 ,1937 ) was aRussia nBolshevik Party leader andSoviet Union official.Biography
Born near
Ivanovo-Voznesensk , he joined theRussian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898 working for the party in Ivanovo-Voznesensk,Moscow ,Kharkov ,Baku andOdessa . He was arrested on multiple occasions. In 1914, Kiselev joined the Central Committee of the party, and shortly thereafter he was arrested again and sent toSiberia by the Tsarist authorities.In the general
amnesty of theFebruary Revolution , he returned to the east in 1917 and resumed his position of the Central Committee. He later became only a candidate (alternate) member of the Central Committee, and served this role from 1917 to 1934.In 1920 Kiselev supported the
Workers' Opposition , but conformed to party discipline when the group was banned. From 1923-1924 he served as a member of the presidium of the "TSKK" (Central Control Commission of the Communist Party). In 1923 Kiselev also became thePeople's Commissar of the Workerss and Peasants' Inspection of theRussian SFSR , and a reserve member to the same role for the whole Soviet Union.With
Joseph Stalin in power, on September 7, 1937, after 20 years of service to the Soviet government, Kiselev was arrested for allegedly belonging to an "anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary organisation". Uncharacteristic of the slaughter ofOld Bolsheviks who led such distinguished and long careers, Kiselev was almost immediately shot after his arrest (inMoscow ).He was among the first of Stalin's victims to be rehabilitated, in 1956 (at the very beginning of De-Stalinization).
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