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Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky
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Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (born Minei Izrailevich Gubelman) was a Russian revolutionary, a Soviet party and state figure, an ideologist and the leader of anti-religious policy in the USSR, and one of the principal ideologists of Stalinism. He was born on 3 March 1878 in Chita into a family of exiled settlers. At the age of nine he began working as an apprentice in a bookbinding workshop, where he spent three years. In 1892 he graduated from the three-class city school in Chita.
In 1898 Yaroslavsky joined the RSDLP and organized a social-democratic circle on the Trans-Baikal Railway. In 1901 he worked as a correspondent for the newspaper 'Iskra' abroad. In 1902, while a member of the Chita committee of the RSDLP, he was arrested for distributing revolutionary leaflets. From 1903 he lived underground, became a member of the Petersburg committee of the RSDLP and one of the leaders of the Combat Centre. He organized a strike of textile workers in Yaroslavl (hence his pseudonym) and took part in the 1905–1907 revolution.
From 1915 to 1917 Yaroslavsky was head of the Yakutsk local history museum. After the February Revolution he joined the Yakut Committee of Public Safety, and in May became head of the Yakut soviet. During the October Revolution he was a member of the Moscow Party Centre, a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee and the first commissar of the Kremlin. In 1918–1919 Yaroslavsky was the Central Committee of the RCP(b)'s plenipotentiary for mobilization into the Red Army and commissar of the Moscow Military District. From 1939 until his death he was a member of the Central Committee of the VKP(b), an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (from 28 January 1939), and he headed the Department of History of the VKP(b) and the Central Committee's lecture group. In 1943 Yaroslavsky became a laureate of the Stalin Prize, 1st class. Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky died on 4 December 1943.
Date of birth
03 March 1878
Date of death
04 December 1943
Occupation
Statesman