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administration of the railway.
In 1922, on Lenin’s recommen-
dation, was appointed busi-
ness manager of the Gorki state
farm—404
Preobrazhensky, Yevgeny Alexeye-
vich (1886- 1937)—Party mem-
ber from 1903. From March
1921, member of the Collegium
of the People’s Commissariat
for Finance, then Chairman
of the Central Administration
for Vocational Training under
the People’s Commissariat for
Education. During the discus-
sion on the trade unions in
1920- 21 backed Trotsky—106,
127, 321, 341, 364-66, 421,
427, 445, 450, 495, 540
Prokopovich, Sergei Nikolayevich
(1871- 1955)—bourgeois
econ-
omist and publicist. Took part
in the co-operative movement.
In 1921, member of the All-
Russia Famine Relief Com-
mittee; together with some
other members of the organisa-
tion tried to use it for counter-
revolutionary aims. In 1922
was expelled from the country
for anti-Soviet activity—106,
269
Pyatakov,
Georgi
Leonidovich
(1890- 1937)—Party
member
from 1910. After the October
Revolution, member of the
Ukrainian Soviet Government.
From 1920, engaged in busi-
ness and Soviet government
work: Deputy Chairman of the
State Planning Commission and
the Supreme Economic Coun-
cil, trade representative in
France, Chairman of the Board
of the U.S.S.R. State Bank.
Repeatedly opposed the Party’s
Leninist policy. In 1927 was ex-
pelled from the Party for fac-
tional activity; reinstated and
once again expelled in 1936—
111, 121, 217, 264, 381, 393,
411, 457, 458- 59, 482, 487-89,
499, 500- 01, 570, 574, 584- 85,
586, 587-88
R
Rabinovich, F. Y. (1885-1937)—
member
of
the
R.S.D.L.P.
from 1902, Menshevik; from
1919, Bolshevik. In 1920- 22,
Business Manager of the Sec-
retariat of the People’s Com-
missariat for Foreign Trade,
deputy representative of the
Council of Labour and Defence
and of the P.C.F.T. in Trans-
caucasia. In 1922-25, member,
then chief, of the “Arcos” As-
sociation Board, deputy trade
representative in Britain—178
Radchenko,
Ivan
Ivanovich
(1874-1942)—Party
member
from 1898. From 1918, organiser
and leader of the peat industry
in the U.S.S.R. In 1921- 22,
member of the Collegium of
the People’s Commissariat for
Foreign
Trade.
In
1927-30
and
in
1934-35,
principal
of the Scientific Research In-
stitute for the Peat Industry
—116, 151, 170, 179, 181, 273,
322, 331, 347, 362, 365, 370,
373, 412, 464, 514-16, 585
Radek,
Karl
Berngardovich
(1885-1939)—member
of
the
Bolshevik Party from 1917.
After the October Revolution,
worked in the People’s Com-
missariat for Foreign Affairs;
Secretary of the Comintern
Executive Committee; contrib-
utor to Pravda and Izvestia.
Repeatedly opposed the Party’s
Leninist policy. Expelled from
the Party for anti- Party ac-
tivity—158, 251, 267-68, 282,
310, 311, 409, 446, 447, 456,
479, 589
Rahja, Eino (1886- 1936)—Party
member from 1903. Participant
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NAME INDEX
in the revolutionary move-
ment in Russia and Finland.
In July 1917, helped to ar-
range Lenin’s passage to Fin-
land to escape persecution by
the bourgeois Provisional Gov-
ernment, and back again to
Russia in October. In 1918,
commanded Red Guard de-
tachments during the work-
ers’ revolution in Finland. In
1919, commander of the troops
fighting Yudenich. Member of
the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Finland
—87
Rakosi,
Mátyás (b. 1892)—mem-
ber of the Communist Party of
Hungary from 1918. After the
establishment of the Soviet
power in Hungary in 1919,
member of the revolutionary
government.
From
1920
to
1924, worked in the Comin-
tern Executive Committee; in
1921, was elected its Secre-
tary—267- 68, 310
Rakovsky, Khristian Georgievich
(1873- 1941)—Party
member
from 1917. From 1918, Chair-
man of the Council of People’s
Commissars of the Ukraine;
from
1923,
engaged
in
diplomatic work in Britain and
France. Active member of the
Trotskyite opposition, for which
was expelled from the Party—
89, 94, 96, 145, 246, 302, 340,
349, 381, 447
Ramzin, Leonid Konstantinovich
(1887- 1948)—heat
engineer
From 1920, professor of the
Moscow Higher Technical Col-
lege. In 1921, member of the
State
Planning
Commission
later, principal of the Moscow
All-Union Thermal Technical
Institute—200-01,
307,
334,
454, 466
Reine,
T. Y.— engineer. In 1919,
head of the Bureau of Account-
ing and Supply, and member
of the Collegium of the Mining
Council under the Supreme
Economic Council—171
Reinstein,
B. I. (1866-1947)—
Bolshevik from 1918. Worked
mainly in the Comintern and
the Red International of Trade
Unions—267, 268, 337, 338,
346, 362, 368, 523, 559
Remeiko (
Tikhomirov),
A. G.
(1894-1938)—Party
member
from 1914. In 1920-23, head
of the Organising Department
of
the
All-Russia
Central
Trade Union Council; member
of the Presidium of the All-
Russia Miners’ Union Central
Committee; Chairman of the
Kursk and Odessa Gubernia
Councils of Trade Unions—382
Reske,
Nikolai
Alexandrovich
(1887-1956)—in
1921,
repre-
sentative of the Council of
Labour and Defence, the All-
Russia Central Executive Com-
mittee and the People’s Com-
missariat for Workers’ and
Peasants’ Inspection in the
Northern Caucasus; in 1921-22,
member of the Collegium of
the People’s Commissariat for
Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspec-
tion. Later, extraordinary rep-
resentative of the All-Russia
C.E.C. and the People’s Com-
missariat for Food in conduct-
ing the tax in kind campaign
in Gomel, Bryansk and Kaluga
gubernias—281
Ringo, I. A. (1883-1946)—engi-
neer; in 1918-22, head of the
Moscow
Gubernia
Electrical
Department; later, director of
the electrical assembly office
of the Moscow Economic Coun-
cil and the department of local
electrification
under
the
Supreme Economic Council—55
Rothstein,
Theodore (1871- 1953)
—Party member from 1901.