Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov
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Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov was a prominent Russian
Bolshevik
.
Skvortsov-Stepanov was one of the oldest participants in the Russian revolutionary movement, a Marxist
writer.
He joined the revolutionary movement in 1892 and became a Bolshevik in the winter of 1904. In 1906 he was a delegate to the Fourth Congress
of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
, where he supported Lenin
. During the period 1907–10, he favoured the Mezhraiontsy
faction, but later fell again under the influence of Lenin. He was repeatedly arrested and exiled for his revolutionary activities.
Following the Revolution of 1917 he became the People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR.
Upon his death in October 1928, Stepanov was commemorated by Stalin as a "staunch and steadfast Leninist". This contrasts greatly with the treatment of the majority of members of the original Council of the People's Commissars, most of whom were executed during Stalin's purges.
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
.
Skvortsov-Stepanov was one of the oldest participants in the Russian revolutionary movement, a Marxist
Marxism
Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...
writer.
He joined the revolutionary movement in 1892 and became a Bolshevik in the winter of 1904. In 1906 he was a delegate to the Fourth Congress
4th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Fourth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party that took place in Stockholm, Sweden, from April 10-25 , 1906....
of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party , also known as Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or Russian Social Democratic Party, was a revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organizations into one party...
, where he supported Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
. During the period 1907–10, he favoured the Mezhraiontsy
Mezhraiontsy
Mezhraiontsy or Mezhraionka , usually translated as the interdistrictites , officially RSDRP , was a small Petrograd-based group within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, which existed between 1913 and 1917...
faction, but later fell again under the influence of Lenin. He was repeatedly arrested and exiled for his revolutionary activities.
Following the Revolution of 1917 he became the People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR.
Upon his death in October 1928, Stepanov was commemorated by Stalin as a "staunch and steadfast Leninist". This contrasts greatly with the treatment of the majority of members of the original Council of the People's Commissars, most of whom were executed during Stalin's purges.