795
NAME INDEX
Committee, Chairman of the
Kharkov Gubernia Revolution-
ary Committee. In 1920-21,
Chairman of the Building Work-
ers’ Union Central Committee;
Chairman of the Chief Public
Works
Committee,
Deputy
Chairman of the Supreme Eco-
nomic Council. During the dis-
cussion on the trade unions,
headed the anti- Party Demo-
cratic Centralism group. Later,
repeatedly opposed the Party’s
Leninist policy. In 1927 was
expelled from the Party by
the Fifteenth C.P.S.U.(B.) Con-
gress—168, 187, 275
Scheidemann, Philipp (1865-1939)
—a leader of the extreme
Right-wing of German Social-
Democracy—80
Scheinman,
Aron Lvovich (b. 1886)
—Party member from 1903.
From 1920, worked in the
People’s Commissariat for For-
eign Trade. In 1921, member
of the Collegium of the Peo-
ple’s Commissariat for Finance
and the State Bank Board,
then Deputy People’s Commis-
sar for Finance of the U.S.S.R.
—228, 331, 428, 455, 490
Schmidt, Otto Yulyevich (1891-
1956)—Party
member
from
1918; scientist, Arctic explor-
er, public figure. In 1921-22,
member of the Collegium of
the People’s Commissariat for
Finance. From 1932 to 1939,
head of the Central Arctic
Route Administration—77, 445
Schmidt, Vasily Vladimirovich
(1886- 1940)—Party
member
from 1905. In 1918-28, Peo-
ple’s Commissar for Labour,
Secretary of the All- Russia
Central Trade Union Council
—114
Schwarz,
Isaak
Izrailevich
(1879-1951)—Party
member
from 1899. In 1921, Chairman
of
the
All-Russia
Miners’
Union
Central
Committee—
381
Semashko,
Nikolai Alexandrovich
(1874-1949)—Party
member
from 1893. Participant in the
1905-07 revolution and the
October Revolution. In 1918-
30, People’s Commissar for
Public Health of the R.S.F.S.R.
—65, 67, 69, 89, 97, 128, 208,
298, 337, 384, 502, 557, 559
Senin,
V. I. (1886-1943)—in 1918-
23 uyezd commissar for food,
chief of the grain and fodder
administration and the state
purchases administration of the
People’s
Commissariat
for
Food; later, chief of the farm-
ing department of the People’s
Commissariat for Agriculture
—105
Serebrovsky,
Alexander Pavlovich
(1884-1943)—Party
member
from 1903. In 1920-26, Chair-
man of the Board of the Azer-
baijan Oil Committee in Baku;
Chief of Glavzoloto, and Dep-
uty People’s Commissar for
Heavy
Industry—109,
112,
147, 178- 79, 188
Sereda,
Semyon
Pafnutyevich
(1871-1933)—Party
member
from 1903. After the October
Revolution, People’s Commis-
sar for Agriculture of the
R.S.F.S.R.
(1918-21);
from
1921, member of the Presi-
dium of the Supreme Economic
Council and the State Plan-
ning Commission, Deputy Man-
ager and Manager of the Central
Statistical
Board
of
the
R.S.F.S.R. From 1930, Dep-
uty Chairman of the State
Planning Commission—47, 52,
53, 340
Sergo—see
Orjonikidze,
G. K.
Serrati,
Giacinto Menotti (1872-
1926)—a
leader
of
the
Italian Socialist Party, later,
796
NAME INDEX
Communist. In 1915- 23, Di-
rector of the Socialist Party’s
Central Organ, the newspaper
Avanti!—124, 311, 377, 422,
600
Shafransky,
Ivan
Osipovich
(1891- 1954)—Party
member
from 1917. In May-June 1921,
Executive Secretary of the
Samarkand Regional Committee
of the Communist Party of
Turkestan; later, Chairman of
the Samarkand Regional Party
Control Commission—195
Shapiro,
L. G. (
Shanin,
M.)
(1887- 1957)—took part in the
revolutionary movement from
1902; in 1903, joined the Riga
organisation of the Bund; Men-
shevik; from 1918, Bolshevik
Worked in the People’s Com-
missariat for Education, and
did political work in the Red
Army. From 1920 to 1921,
member of the Presidium of
the Chief Committee for Politi-
cal Education. Later, worked
in the People’s Commissariat
for Finance of the R.S.F.S.R
—397, 400
Shaposhnikov,
Alexei Romanovich—
peasant from Beketovo Village,
Bulgakov Volost, Ufa Uyezd-
in early March 1921 came to
Moscow, together with some
other peasants, on Lenin’s in-
vitation to discuss the sub-
stitution of a tax in kind for
surplus grain appropriation—
101-02
Shapovalov,
Alexander Isidorovich
(1871-1942)—a veteran of the
revolutionary
movement
in
Russia, member of the League
of Struggle for the Eman-
cipation of the Working Class
from 1895. After the October
Revolution, engaged in Soviet
government and Party work—
308
Shatilov,
Iosif
Nikolayevich
(1824-1889)—from 1864, Presi-
dent of the Moscow Farming
Society, a founder of the Pet-
rovskaya Agricultural and For-
estry Academy (now named
after K. A. Timiryazev); found-
er of the experimental station
in Tula Gubernia (now Shati-
lov State Selection Station in
Orel Region)—584
Shatunovsky, Yakov Moiseyevich
(1876-1932)—Party
member
from 1918. From 1920, member
of the Transport Commission
under the Council of Labour
and Defence, member of the
Industrial Section of the State
Planning Commission—137
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
—English playwright and pub-
licist—404
Shcherba, Lev Vladimirovich (1880-
1944)—Soviet
linguist.
In
1916-44, professor of Leningrad
University—173
Shchurkevich,
Pantelei Antonovich
(1873-1942)—professor of the
Leningrad Electrotechnical In-
stitute—173-74
Shelekhes,
Yakov Savelyevich—
248
Shklovskaya,
Dvosya Zelikovna
(1880-1956)—wife
of
G.
L.
Shklovsky—70, 71, 88
Shklovsky,
Grigory
Lvovich
(1875-1937)—Party
member
from 1898. In 1918, adviser
of the R.S.F.S.R. plenipoten-
tiary at the Swiss Government
in Berne. In 1919-21, member
of the Collegium of the People’s
Commissariat for Agriculture;
Party worker in Moscow; rep-
resentative of the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Af-
fairs in Petrograd and in the
Northern area of the R.S.F.S.R.;
member of the trade mission
of the R.S.F.S.R. in Germany
—71, 88, 162, 175, 176, 211,
535