797
NAME INDEX
Shlyapnikov,
Alexander Gavri-
lovich (1885-1987)—Party mem-
ber from 1901. After the Octo-
ber Revolution, People’s Com-
missar for Labour. In 1919-22,
Chairman of the Central Com-
mittee of the All-Russia Metal-
workers’
Union;
from
May
1921, member of the Presidium
of
the
Supreme
Economic
Council. In 1920- 22, organiser
and leader of the anti- Party
Workers’ Opposition group. Ex-
pelled from the C.P.S.U.(B.)
during the Party purge in
1933—114, 253
Shotman, Alexander Vasilyevich
(1880-1989)—Party
member
from 1899. In 1922, Chairman
of the Economic Conference
of the Karelian Autonomous
Soviet Socialist Republic—578
Shpektorov, N. L. (1890- 1937)—
Party
member
from
1920.
From 1918, served in the Red
Army. In 1922- 25, member
of the Political Department of
the
Revolutionary
Military
Council of the Republic—130
Shvedchikov,
Konstantin Matve-
yevich (1884-1952)—Party mem-
ber from 1904. In 1918-24,
representative of the Council
of People’s Commissars for
the paper industry and the
printing
industry.
Later,
worked in the People’s Commis-
sariat for Foreign Trade—369
Sklyansky,
Efraim
Markovich
(1892- 1925)—Party
member
from 1913. In 1918-24, Deputy
People’s Commissar for Mili-
tary Affairs and Deputy Chair-
man of the Revolutionary Mi-
litary Council of the Republic
—48, 65, 66, 83, 88, 138, 166,
171, 172, 189, 298, 466
Skobelev,
Matvei
Ivanovich
(1885-1939)—member
of
the
R.S.D.L.P. from 1903, Men-
shevik. After the February rev-
olution, Minister for Labour
in the bourgeois Provisional
Government. After the Oc-
tober Revolution, broke with
the Mensheviks and worked
in the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Trade. From 1921
to 1925, representative of the
People’s
Commissariat
for
Foreign Trade in France—277
Skvortsov—see
Skvortsov-
Stepanov,
I. I.
Skvortsov-Stepanov,
Ivan Ivano-
vich (1870- 1928)—Party mem-
ber from 1896. In 1921, Deputy
Chairman
of
the
Editorial
Board of the Slate Publishers.
Author of many economic and
historical
works,
translator
and editor of the three volumes
of Capital and other works of
Marx and Engels—213, 284,
307, 327, 350, 552, 554-55
ömeral, Bohumir (1880-1941)—
prominent figure in the Czech-
oslovak
and
international
working- class
movement,
a
founder of the Communist Par-
ty of Czechoslovakia, member
of its Central Committee; mem-
ber of the Comintern Executive
Committee—213, 258
Smilga,
Ivar Tenisovich (1892-
1938)—Party
member
from
1907. After the October Rev-
olution, representative of the
R.S.F.S.R. Council of People’s
Commissar in Finland. In 1920-
21, member of the Revolution-
ary Military Council of the
Republic and of the R.M.C.s
of the Western, Southern and
Caucasian
fronts;
Chairman
of the Council of the South-
Eastern Labour Army. From
1921 to 1923, Deputy Chairman
of the Supreme Economic Coun-
cil and Chief of the Central
Fuel Administration—84, 116,
170, 205, 207, 263, 265, 334,
411, 452, 479, 566, 568
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NAME INDEX
Smirnov,
Alexander
Petrovich
(1877- 1938)—Party
member
from 1896. From 1919, member
of the Collegium of the People’s
Commissariat for Food; later,
Deputy People’s Commissar for
Food, etc.—324
Smirnov,
Ivan Nikitich (1881-
1936)—Party
member
from
1899. In 1920-21, Chairman
of the Siberian Revolutionary
Committee. In 1921-22, worked
in
the
Supreme
Economic
Council; later, People’s Com-
missar for Posts and Telegraphs
—88, 96, 183, 208, 381, 530
Smirnov,
N. N. (b. 1880)—oil
engineer. After the October
Revolution, worked in the oil
industry; later, professor of the
Moscow Oil Institute and the
Mining Academy—63, 88
Smirnov,
V. M. (1887- 1937)—
Party member from 1907. After
the October Revolution, mem-
ber of the Presidium of the
Supreme Economic Council; in
1921-22, member of the Presid-
ium of the State Planning
Commission; from March 1921,
member of the Commission
for the Utilisation of Material
Resources of the R.S.F.S.R.
under the Council of Labour
and Defence. In 1923 joined
the Trotskyite opposition, and
was expelled from the Party
for factional activity—104, 550
Smith-Falkner,
Maria Natanovna
(1878- 1968)—economist
and
statistician, Party member from
1918. After the October Revo-
lution, worked in a number of
research
institutions.
From
1939, Associate Member of the
U.S.S.R Academy of Sciences
—107
Smolyaninov,
Vadim Alexandro-
vich (1890- 1962)—Party mem-
ber from 1908. From April
1921, Deputy Business Man-
ager of the Council of Labour
and Defence on economic mat-
ters; later, Business Manager of
the Council of People’s Com-
missars of the R.S.F.S.R.—
140, 148- 49, 152, 154, 167, 180,
208, 217, 220, 221- 22, 234,
240, 244, 251, 273, 274, 275-
77, 279, 281-82, 283, 285, 295,
316, 349, 366, 372, 381, 394,
421, 422, 436, 438, 442-43,
452, 453-55, 491, 503, 506,
524, 543, 546, 547, 550, 552,
560, 563, 568- 70, 572
Sokolnikov (Brilliant), Grigory
Yakovlevich (1888- 1939)—Par-
ty member from 1905. From
August 1920 to March 1921,
Commander of the Turkestan
Front and Chairman of the
Turkestan Commission of the
All-Russia Central Executive
Committee;
from
November
1921, member of the Collegium
of the People’s Commissariat
for
Finance,
from
1922,
People’s Commissar for Fi-
nance; from 1926, Deputy Chair-
man of the State Planning
Commission; later, Deputy Peo-
ple’s Commissar for Foreign
Affairs. In 1936 was expelled
from the Party for anti-Party
activity—161, 387, 417-18, 427,
429, 444, 450, 460, 465, 476,
478, 480, 490, 495, 496-97,
499- 500, 512, 513, 514, 521,
539, 552, 577, 591
Solovyou,
N. I. (1870- 1947)—Par-
ty member from 1900. In 1921,
head of the Statistical Depart-
ment of the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee—287
Solovyov, V. I. (1890- 1939)—Par-
ty member from 1913. In 1920,
member of the Commission
Working Out a Project for
Reorganising the People’s Com-
missariat for Education. In
1921, Deputy Chairman of the
Chief Committee for Political