Sosnovsky Lev Semenovich
Journalist, publicist, member of the editorial board of the Izvestia newspaper
Born in 1886 in Orenburg; Jewish; member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1903. Journalist , publicist. In exile in Barnaul since 1928. Arrested on 29 April 1929. Sentenced on 24 May 1929 by a Special Conference of the OGPU Collegium under Art. 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 3 years of imprisonment; the term was extended by the same body on 13 April 1932 for 2 years. Rehabilitated by the Altai Territory Prosecutor's Office on 4 July 1993. In 1936 - member of the editorial board of the Izvestia newspaper. Lived in Moscow, Novoslobodskaya St., Bldg. 67, Apt. 71. Arrested on 23 October 1936 on charges of Trotskyism. Sentenced on 03.07.1937 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on charges of sabotage and participation in an anti-Soviet Trotskyist-terrorist organization to capital punishment. Shot on 03.07.1937 in Moscow, burial place - Donskoye Cemetery . Rehabilitated on 28.06.1958.
Documents (1)
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Кибальчич Виктор Львович (Серж Виктор)
1. Victor Serge's article "Is a Proletarian Literature Possible?", published in the bulletin "Yale French Studies" (translated by Anna Aschenbach from the publication in the magazine "Clarté" No. 12 of 01.03.1925), in English.




