Lazar Shatskin

Lazar Abramovich Shatskin (Лазарь Абрамович Шацкин, (1902-1937) was Soviet and international Communist functionary, one of the founders of Komsomol.

He was born to a wealthy Jewish family.[1] Joining the Bolshevik party in May 1917, he took part in establishment a number of youth organizations: МК РКСМ (Russian Young Communist League by the Moscow Committee of Boslhevik Party), Moscow Union of Working Youth, Komsomol, and the Young Communist International.[2]

First Secretary of the YCI (1919-1921), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Young Communist League (ЦК РКСМ, 1921-1922).

In 1930 he was a member of a group in opposition to Stalin, which Stalin described as "Right-Leftist bloc" (Право-левацкий блок).[3] In 1935 he was arrested and expelled from the Party, and shot in 1937.

References

  1. Boris Bazhanov, "Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary" ("Воспоминания бывшего секретаря Сталина"
  2. "ОН СОЗДАЛ КОМСОМОЛ" ("He Creatied Komsomol")
  3. Vadim Rogovin, "Power and Oppositions" (" Власть и оппозиции")
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