Yuri Milonov

Yuri Konstantinovich Milonov (Russian: Юрий Константинович Милонов; 20 April [O.S. 8 April] 1895, in Nizhny Novgorod – 7 April 1980, in Moscow) was a Russian political activist who joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1912.[1] He was arrested in 1915, and sent on internal exile to Saratov. Here he used his administrative skills to support a hospital fund for print shop workers and the agricultural census commission set up by the Zemstvo of the Samara Governorate.[1]: p859 

Samara

Samara, located in the area of the Russian famine of 1921–22

He was only released after the February Revolution in 1917. He was active in Samara during the Russian Civil War.[1]: p858  He supported the Workers' Opposition. He was Commissar of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Railway Telegraph and Commissar of Labour of Samara Governorate. He was also provisional chair of the Samara Goverbate Cheka.[1]: p859  He was advocate of the Proletkult movement.[1] Then he served as secretary of the Samara Soviet. He was also a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Soldatskaia Pravda (Samara).[1]: p858 

10th Party Congress

In March 1921 he attended the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (b) where he claimed that the Communist Party was ceasing to be a workers party.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Allen, Barbara C. (2021). The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party, Documents, 1919-1930. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-24850-2.
  2. ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1988). "The Bolsheviks' Dilemma: Class, Culture, and Politics in the Early Soviet Years". Slavic Review. 47 (4): 599–613. doi:10.2307/2498180. JSTOR 2498180. S2CID 155792014.