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Pēteris Stučka, sometimes spelt Pyotr Ivanovich Stuchka (Russian: Пётр Иванович Стучка (b. July 26, 1865 [O.S. July 14] in Koknese civil parish, Vidzeme -- d. January 25, 1932 in Moscow) was the head of the Bolshevik government in Latvia during the Latvian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the New Current movement in the late 19th century, a prolific writer and translator, an editor of major Latvian and Russian socialist and communist newspapers and periodicals, a prominent jurist and educator, and the first president of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
