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P
Paikes,
A. K. (1873- 1958)—Party
member from 1918. In 1921-
22, plenipotentiary represent-
ative in China and later in
Lithuania. From 1923, worked
on
the
Supreme
Economic
Council—178, 183, 332
Pavlov,
Ivan Petrovich (1849-
1936)—prominent
Russian
physiologist—69
Pavlov,
V. A. (1890- 1942)—radio
engineer; in 1921- 24, Chief of
the Radio Department of the
People’s
Commissariat
for
Posts and Telegraphs—554
Pavlovich,
Mikhail
Pavlovich
(Veltman, M. L.) (1871- 1927)
—orientalist. After the Octo-
ber Revolution, Deputy Peo-
ple’s Commissar for Education
in the Ukraine. In 1921-23,
member of the Collegium of
the People’s Commissariat for
Nationalities and Chairman of
the Scientific Orientalogy As-
sociation. Later, principal of
the Institute of Orientalogy
—194
Peshekhonov, Alexei Vasilyevich
(1867-1933)—in 1917, Minister
for Food in the bourgeois Pro-
visional Government. In 1921,
worked on the Central Statis-
tical Bureau of the Ukraine.
In 1922 was expelled from the
country for participating in the
counter- revolutionary
League
of Regeneration—79, 82, 484
Pestun,
Kh.
G. (1889- 1939)—
Party member from 1918. In
1920-21, Secretary of the Gomel
Gubernia Party Committee. In
1921- 22, representative of the
R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee
in Bashkiria—280- 81
Peters,
Jan
Khristoforovich
(1886- 1938)—Party
member
from 1904. From 1920, mem-
ber of the Turkestan Bureau
of the Central Committee, then
member of the Collegium of
the Joint State Political Ad-
ministration, of the Central
Control Commission, of the
People’s
Commissariat
for
Workers’ and Peasants’ In-
spection, Chairman of the Mos-
cow Control Commission of the
C.P.S.U.(B.), member of the
Party
Control
Commission
under the Central Committee
of the C.P.S.U.(B.)—297
Petrov,
Grigory
Semyonovich
(b. 1886)—chemical technolo-
gist, an organiser of production
of plastics in the country.
From 1932, professor of the
Moscow Chemical and Techno-
logical Institute—129
Petrovsky,
Grigory
Ivanovich
(1878-1958)—Party
member
from 1897. From 1919 to 1938,
Chairman of the All- Ukraine
Central Executive Committee,
Deputy
Chairman
of
the
U.S.S.R.
Central
Executive
Committee—111, 145
Pilyavsky,
Stanislav Stanislavo-
vich (1882- 1937)—Party mem-
ber from 1903. From October
1921, worked in the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs
as a member and rapporteur
of the C.P.C. Commission deal-
ing with negotiations on debts
—383
Plekhanov,
Georgi Valentinovich
(G. V., X., Nemets) (1856-
1918)—outstanding figure in
the Russian and international
working- class movement, first
propagandist of Marxism in
Russia; in 1883, founded in
Geneva the first Russian Marx-
ist organisation, the Emancipa-
tion of Labour group. In the
early 1900s, member of the
Editorial Board of Iskra and
the journal Zarya.
From 1883 to 1903, Plekha-
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nov wrote a number of works
which played an important
part in the defence and prop-
aganda
of
the
materialist
outlook.
After
the
Second
R.S.D.L.P. Congress in 1903,
he adopted a conciliatory stand
towards the opportunists, and
afterwards joined the Menshe-
viks. In 1907-14, he came out
against the Machist revision
of Marxism and against liqui-
dationism,
and
headed
the
group of pro-Party Menshe-
viks. During the First World
War, took a social-chauvinist
attitude. He disapproved of the
October Revolution, but did
not take part in fighting the
Soviet power—138
Poincaré, Raymond (1860-1934)—
French politician and states-
man. From 1893, was repeat-
edly a member of the French
government. In 1912, Prime
Minister; from 1913 to 1920,
President of France. After the
October Revolution, one of the
organisers of the foreign mili-
tary intervention against So-
viet Russia. In 1922- 24 and
1926-29, Prime Minister of
France—469
Pokrovsky, Mikhail Nikolayevich
(1868- 1932)—historian,
Party
member from 1905. From Nov-
ember 1917 to March 1918,
Chairman
of
the
Moscow
Soviet. From 1918, Deputy Peo-
ple’s Commissar for Education
of the R.S.F.S.R.—67, 69, 77,
83, 93, 128, 139, 370, 412, 552
Polyakov, Mikhail Kharitonovich
(1884-1938)—Party
member
from 1918. In 1921, Chairman
of the Crimean Revolutionary
Committee—404
Popov,
I.
K.
(1887- 1918)—in
February 1918, sent to Vla-
divostok
by
the
All-Russia
C.E.C. and the Council of
People’s Commissars to organ-
ise the unloading of the port.
Shot by the Japanese interven-
tionists—414
Popov,
Pavel Ilyich (1872- 1950)
—statistician. From 1918, head
of
the
Central
Statistical
Board, member of the Presidium
of the U.S.S.R. State Planning
Commission—48, 200, 260, 262,
342, 484, 524
Popova
(Kasparova),
Yevgenia
Minasovna
(1888- 1963)—took
part in the revolutionary move-
ment from 1903, Party member
from 1919. In 1918- 22, head
of the Housing Department of
the All-Russia Central Execu-
tive Committee; later, Executive
Secretary of the Presidium of
the U.S.S.R. State Planning
Commission—414- 15
Potyaev, A. I. (b. 1888)—Party
member from 1917 to 1923.
In 1920-21, member of the
Collegium of the People’s Com-
missariat for Food, Chief of
the
Central
Administration
of the Fishing Industry. Later,
worked in the People’s Com-
missariat for Foreign Trade—
135, 203, 223-24, 225-26, 234,
242, 328
Pravdin, Alexander Grigoryevich
(1879-1943)—Party
member
from 1899. After the October
Revolution until 1923, Deputy
People’s Commissar for Internal
Affairs. Later, Deputy People’s
Commissar for Railways, Chair-
man of the Northern Railways
Board, Chief of the Transport
Group of the People’s Commis-
sariat for Workers’ and Peas-
ants’ Inspection—297
Preobrazhensky, Alexei Andreye-
vich (1863-1938)—from 1902,
worked on the Samara-Zlatoust
Railway; from 1918, chief of
the office; from 1919, business
manager and then head of the