Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov
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Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov (1870 – 1928) was a prominent Russian Bolshevik.
Skvortsov-Stepanov was one of the oldest participants in the Russian revolutionary movement, a Marxist writer.
He joined the revolutionary movement in 1892 and became a Bolshevik in the winter of 1904. In 1906 he was a delegate to the Fourth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, where he suuported Lenin. During the period 1907–10, he favoured the Vperyod faction, but later fell again under the influence of Lenin. He was repeatedly arrested and exiled for his revolutionary activities.
Following the Revolution of 1917 he became the Commissar of Narkomfin, the People's Commissariat of Finance.
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- Izbrannye ateisticheskie proizvedenii'a