Aleksandr Petrovich Smirnov

Aleksandr Petrovich Smirnov was born in 1877 in the village of Nikola, in the Tver province. He died on February 9, 1938.

He became member of the Communist Party in 1896. In 1917 he became chairman of the soviet in Bogorodsk (present-day Noginsk), and a member of the of the presidium of the soviet of Moscow Province.

From 1919 to 1922 he was deputy people's commissar for food, and from 1923 to 1928 he was people's commissar for agriculture of the RSFSR and, at the same time, general secretary of the Peasant International.[1]

In 1933 he was expelled from the Central Committee for his alleged participation in an opposition group.[2] In 1934 he was expelled from the Communist Party for alleged anti-Party activities and arrested.

References

  1. ↑ Extract from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
  2. ↑ Campbell, Robert Wellington (2012). A biobibliographical dictionary of Russian and Soviet economics. New York: Routledge. pp. 384–385. ISBN 9780415519465. OCLC 772112384.
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