Shatskin Lazar Abramovich

Definition: Soviet party leader, one of the founders and leaders of the Komsomol.
Years of life: 1902-1937
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Born in the Russian Empire in the city of Suwalki. Jew, higher education. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1917.
One of the organizers of the MK RKSM in 1917. Member of the Civil War 1918-1920. In 1918-1922. member of the Central Committee of the RKSM, secretary of the Central Committee of the RKSM. At the same time in 1919-1921. - First Secretary of the Communist Youth International. In 1926-1928. - Member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. Delegate of the 1st, 4th, 8th congresses of the Komsomol; 8th-13th, 15th-16th Congresses of the CPSU(b). Delegate of the 1st-3rd congresses of the KIM, 2nd-5th congresses of the Comintern, in 1919-1923. - Member of the Executive Committee of KIM.

In 1925 he studied at the Institute of Red Professors. At the XV Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1927) he was elected a member of the Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Since 1928 - in the party and state work. In 1928-1929 he was a member of the editorial board of the Pravda newspaper. On June 18, 1929, he published in Pravda an article “Down with the party man in the street”, in which he noted that the party was dominated by a “silent majority” ready to approve any directive issued “from above”. The article aroused Stalin's displeasure. Sharp articles appeared in Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda and other publications condemning Shatskin; The Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League adopted the Decree “On gross political mistakes of comrade. Shatskin".

In 1930, together with another former Komsomol worker, V.V. Lominadze, he created an opposition group, which later, together with the group of the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR S.I. Syrtsov, formed a bloc, characterized by Stalin as "right-leftist" [3]. On December 1, 1930, a joint resolution of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission "On the factional work of Syrtsov, Lominadze and others" appeared. Syrtsov and Lominadze were removed from the Central Committee, and Shatskin from the Central Control Commission, as well as from the editorial boards of the newspapers Pravda and Komsomolskaya Pravda.

From November 1930 to November 1932 he worked in the Tsentrosoyuz [2]. Since 1932 - Deputy Chairman of the Central Asian State Planning Committee. Director of the Institute for Economic Research of the State Planning Committee of the USSR. Without abandoning his convictions, together with Lominadze in 1932 he formed a new opposition "left-right" group, where the right wing was already represented by a former student of Bukharin, Ya. E. Stan; this group broke up after Stan's arrest in the fall of that year.

February 10, 1935 arrested, expelled from the party. Sentenced to 5 years in labor camp. He served his term in the Suzdal Special Purpose Prison. In July 1936, he was again taken under arrest and sent by stage to Moscow. On January 10, 1937, he was sentenced to death by the decision of the USSR All-Union Military Commission, and was shot on the same day. The ashes were buried on the territory of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow. By the definition of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of March 15, 1963, he was rehabilitated.

Documents (2)

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Рютин Мартемьян Никитович
1. The article "The Honor of the Party", dedicated to Ryutin M.N., published in the journal "Knowledge is Power" No. 88/10.
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Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Рютин Мартемьян Никитович
2. The article "From the history of resistance to the regime of personal power [30s]", published in the journal "Herald of Higher School" No. 5, 1990.
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