Monoszon Solomon Meerovich

Genus. in 1882 (1883?) in Vilna; studied at Heidelberg and Berlin universities; member of the RSDLP(b) until 1907, RSDLP(m) from 1907. Until 1917 he spent about a year and a half in prison, was twice in exile, three times was exiled abroad. Until 1914 he was close to the "liquidators", until 1917 he joined the "defencists". He was a comrade of the Minister of Labor in the government of Kerensky. After October 1917, he was a member of the right wing of the Menshevik direction, worked in the Union of Health Insurance Funds of the Moscow Region until it closed in the spring of 1919. He was one of the leaders of the committee that organized the strike of employees of state institutions in Petrograd. At the end of 1919 he became a supporter of Martov. On party mobilization, he served in the Red Army, until the autumn of 1920 - at the front, then as head of the Red Cross department, then worked in the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic. In 1921 he lived in Petrograd, assistant head of the legislative department of the Administrative Department of the Revolutionary Military Council, accountant. head of work on social policy at the Social Academy; arrested on February 25, 1921 for "anti-Soviet activities"; released by the Presidium of the Cheka on 09/05/1921 with the obligation to appear in the 2nd branch of the SOVChK. Arrested again on 11/05/1925 "for active work on the restoration of the Menshevik organization"; sentenced by the Presidium of the Cheka on 12/17/1921 to deportation to the Pechora region of the Arkhangelsk province for 1 year under the open supervision of the Cheka or the Politburo. In January 1922 he was expelled from the country, in 1922-1923 he lived in Berlin, in 1933-1940 - in Paris, in 1940-1970 - in the USA, from 1970 in Israel. He died in Jerusalem in 1973. He was rehabilitated in cases of 1921 by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation on 10/16/1998.