799
NAME INDEX
Education. Later, engaged in
diplomatic and other work—57
Solts,
Aron Alexandrovich (1872-
1945)—Party
member
from
1898. From 1920, member and,
from 1921, Chairman of the
R.C.P.(B.)
Central
Control
Commission; later, member of
the Supreme Court—176, 210,
267, 413, 414, 517
Sorokin,
Pyotr Sergeyevich (1886-
1933)—member of the R.C.P.(B.)
from
1918.
From
1921
to
1923, Moscow Gubernia food
Commissar. Later, worked in
the Moscow Consumers’ Com-
mune, the People’s Commissar-
iat for Home Trade, and Cen-
trosoyuz—228
Sosnovsky,
Lev
Semyonovich
(1886- 1937)—Party
member
from
1904,
journalist.
In
1918- 24, editor of the news-
paper
Bednota (The Poor). In
1921, head of the Agitation
and Propaganda Department of
the R.C.P.(B.) Central Com-
mittee. Later was expelled from
the Party for his activity in
the Trotskyite opposition—314,
352, 369, 532, 583
Spandaryan,
Suren Spandarovich
(1882-1916)—Party
member
from 1902. At the Prague Con-
ference of the R.S.D.L.P. elect-
ed member of the Central
Committee and the Bureau of
the R.S.D.L.P. Central Com-
mittee in Russia. Worked on
the newspaper Zvezda. In 1912
was exiled to Siberia for life
and there died—184- 85
Stalin (
Jugashvili),
Joseph Vis-
sarionovich (1879-1953)—mem-
ber of the R.S.D.L.P. from
1898. After the October Revo-
lution was elected to the Coun-
cil of People’s Commissars,
where he headed the People’s
Commissariat
for
Nationali-
ties. During the foreign inter-
vention and Civil War was ac-
tive on several fronts as a mem-
ber of the Revolutionary Mili-
tary Council of the Republic.
In 1922, was elected General
Secretary of the Central Com-
mittee of the R.C.P.(B.). As
of 1941 he was Chairman of
the Council of People’s Com-
missars, later, also of the
U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers.
During the Great Patriotic War
(1941- 45) was Chairman of the
State Committee for Defence,
People’s Commissar for De-
fence, and Supreme Comman-
der- in-Chief
of
the
Soviet
Armed Forces.
In the position of General
Secretary of the Party C.C.,
which he held for a long time,
Stalin, together with other
leading functionaries, exerted
great efforts for the building
of socialism, and played a
major role in smashing vari-
ous anti-Party trends, espe-
cially Trotskyism and Right
opportunism.
At the same time, associated
with his name are the distor-
tions in the life of Soviet
society, which the Communist
Party qualified as manifesta-
tions of the personality cult
alien
to
Marxism-Leninism.
The C.P.S.U. decidedly con-
demned the personality cult
and took measures to prevent
similar mistakes and distor-
tions in future—65, 95, 100,
127,
136, 257, 265, 266, 268,
311,
313, 314, 322, 334, 348,
355,
359, 381, 384, 407, 409,
427,
431, 440, 443, 450, 454,
460, 466, 474, 479, 484- 85,
490, 493, 496, 501, 516, 530,
532-33, 535, 537, 539, 540, 549,
554, 556- 57, 559-61, 562, 565,
566,
570, 577, 578, 587, 588,
593, 598, 602, 607, 608
800
NAME INDEX
Starkov,
V. V. (1869- 1925)—took
part in the Social-Democratic
movement from the early 1890s.
After the October Revolution,
worked in the People’s Com-
missariat for Foreign Trade,
deputy trade representative of
the R.S.F.S.R. in Germany—
153
Stasova, Yelena Dmitrievna (1873-
1966)—Party
member
from
1898. From February 1917 to
March 1920, Secretary of the
R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee.
In 1920- 21, engaged in Party
work in Petrograd and Baku—
184- 85
Steinberg,
P. B.—Russian capi-
talist, émigré; in 1922- 24, one
of the founders and Manager
of the Joint-Stock Company
for Domestic and Export Trade
in Hides and Skins in the
R.S.F.S.R.—370, 384- 85, 436-
38
Steinmetz, Charles Proteus (Karl
August Rudolf) (1865-1923)—
prominent American scientist
in the field of electrical engi-
neering—597
Steklov,
Yuri Mikhailovich (1873-
1941)—in
Social-Democratic
movement from 1893, Bolshevik
after the Second R.S.D.L.P.
Congress in 1903. After the
October Revolution, member of
the All-Russia and the U.S.S.R.
Central
Executive
Commit-
tee, editor of the newspaper
Izvestia VTsIK—220, 266-67,
415, 555
Stinnes,
Hugo (1870- 1924)—Ger-
man businessman and finan-
cier, founder of the Stinnes
industrial concern in Germany
—390
Stomonyakov, Boris Spiridonovich
(1882-1941)—Party
member
from
1902.
From
1920
to
1925, Soviet trade representa-
tive in Berlin—162, 175, 197,
211, 213, 216, 222, 379, 406,
516, 536, 579, 601
Strizhov, I. N. (b. 1872)—geolo-
gist. From July 1920, deputy
manager of the technical de-
partment of the Central Oil
Administration; later, techni-
cal director of the Grozny Oil
Committee and held other posts
in the oil industry. From 1923,
professor
of
the
Moscow
Mining Academy—88
Strumilin
(Strumillo-Petrash-
kevich),
Stanislav Gustavovich
(b.
1877)—prominent
Soviet
economist
and
statistician,
member of the Party from 1923.
In 1921-37, worked on the
State Planning Commission of
the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.S.R.
Academy of Sciences lecturer
at
Moscow
University
and
other higher schools—200, 372,
467
Stu-
ka,
Pyotr Ivanovich (1865-
1932)—Party
member
from
1903. In 1918- 19, Chairman of
the
Soviet
Government
in
Latvia; later, Deputy People’s
Commissar for Justice of the
R.S.F.S.R. Member of the Lat-
vian Communist Party Cen-
tral Committee and its repre-
sentative in the Comintern—
182
Styunkel,
Boris Ernestovich (1882-
1938)—electrical
engineer.
From 1920, member of the
GOELRO Commission, work-
ing on the project for electri-
fying the Central Industrial
area. In 1920-22, Chairman of
the
Technical
Council
and
member of the Collegium of the
Central Metal Administration
of the Supreme Economic Coun-
cil—456
Sukhanov,
N. (
Gimmer,
Nikolai
Nikolayevich) (b. 1882)—eco-
nomist and publicist, Menshe-
vik. After the October Revo-