Stanisław Pestkowski

Stanisław Pestkowski ( _ru. Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky) (1882 - 1937) was Polish Bolshevik active in the Russian Revolution.

He was born in Poland joined Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and was strongly influenced by Rosa Luxemburg. In 1917 he went to Russia where he became Commissar for Telegraphs in the Bolshevik government.

From 1917 he was involved in Narkomnats, the Soviet People's Commissariat of Nationalities. While Stalin was the Commissar, in practice much of the work was delegated to Pestkovsky. Originally Petrograd Milrevkom (Military revolutionary Committee) blocked the formation of Pol'kom, a Polish Commissariat which Julian Leschinsky wished to set up. Following the intervention of Stalin and Dzerzhinsky, Milrevkom's obstruction were overcome and Pol'kom was established on 23 November 1917 [ 'Vospominaniiia o Rabote v Narkomnats', "Proletarskaia Revoliutsiia" 6,No. 101, 1930] . Pol'kom then set about sovietising all Polish organisations in Russia

He was a delegate to the Second Congress of the Communist International held in August 1920. [ [http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/2nd-congress/delegates.htm Delegates information from the minutes of the 2nd congress of the Communist international] ]

From 30 April 1919 to August 1920 he was Secretary of the Kirghiz Regional Committee of the Communist Party. [ [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Kazakhstan.htm World Statemen:Khazakstan] ] accessed 10 May 2007]

He disappeared in the purges in 1937.

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