777
NAME INDEX
tinovna (1869- 1939)—member
of the Party from 1898, asso-
ciate and wife of V. I. Lenin.
Started revolutionary activity
in
1890
in
the
Marxist
students’ circles in St. Peters-
burg, then conducted Social-
Democratic propaganda among
the workers. In 1895, joined
the St. Petersburg League of
Struggle for the Emancipation
of
the
Working
Class.
In
August 1896, was arrested and
sentenced to three years’ exile.
Served her sentence in the vil-
lage of Shushenskoye, then in
Ufa. In 1901, emigrated, worked
as secretary of the Editorial
Board of Iskra. Took part in
organising the Second Congress
of the R.S.D.L.P. Was secre-
tary of the Editorial Board of
the Bolshevik papers Vperyod
and Proletary. After the Octo-
ber Revolution worked in pub-
lic education bodies—51, 243
267, 397, 399, 607, 608
Krylenko,
Nikolai
Vasilyevich
(1885-1938)—Party
member
from 1904. Member of the Com-
mittee for Military and Naval
Affairs under the first Soviet
Government. In November 1917,
appointed Supreme Command-
er-in-Chief. From 1918, worked
in judicial bodies. In 1922,
Chairman of the Supreme Rev-
olutionary
Tribunal
under
the All- Russia Central Execu-
tive Committee. Deputy Peo-
ple’s Commissar for Justice, and
Senior Assistant Procurator of
the Republic—571
Krzhizhanovsky, Gleb Maximili-
anovich
(1872-1959)—Party
member from 1893; together
with Lenin organised the St.
Petersburg League of Struggle
for the Emancipation of the
Working Class. After the Feb-
ruary revolution of 1917, mem-
ber of the Bolshevik group in
the Moscow Soviet. After the
October Revolution, headed the
rehabilitation and development
of the power economy in Mos-
cow; in 1920, on Lenin’s assign-
ment, headed the State Com-
mission for the Electrification
of Russia (GOELRO). In 1921-
30, head of the State Plan-
ning Commission—86, 87, 137,
172, 182, 194, 198, 205, 206-
07, 235, 244, 256, 261, 265,
266, 272, 307, 321, 328, 330,
340, 343, 387-88, 391, 400, 442,
453, 455-56, 462, 477, 482, 506,
523, 524, 571, 575, 584, 585,
587, 588, 590- 91
Kuibyshev,
Valerian Vladimirovich
(1888-1935)—Party
member
from 1904. Active participant
in the October Revolution,
leader of the armed upris-
ing in Samara. In 1918-19,
Commissar and member of the
Revolutionary Military Coun-
cil of the Southern Group of
the
Eastern
Front;
later,
Deputy Chairman of the Com-
mission on Turkestan Affairs set
up by the All-Russia Central
Executive
Committee,
the
Council of People’s Commis-
sars of the R.S.F.S.R. and
R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee;
in 1920, R.S.F.S.R. Plenipoten-
tiary with the Bukhara Govern-
ment; later, member of the
Presidium of the All-Russia
Central Trade Union Council.
In May 1921, became mem-
ber of the Presidium of the
Supreme Economic Council and
appointed superintendent of the
Central Electricity Administra-
tion. From April 1922, Secretary
of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Com-
mittee. From 1926, Chairman of
the Supreme Economic Council.
From 1934, Chairman of the
Soviet
Control
Commission
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under the C.P.C., First Deputy
Chairman of the Council of
People’s Commissars and the
Council of Labour and Defence
of the U.S.S.R.—304, 320, 334,
526
Kun,
Béla (1886-1939)—founder
and leader of the Hungarian
Communist Party. In 1919,
headed the Soviet Government
in Hungary. After the defeat
of the Soviet power in Hungary,
emigrated to Austria and then
to Russia. Member of the Pre-
sidium of the Comintern Exe-
cutive Committee—66, 68, 185,
216, 422, 530
Kurayev, Vasily Vladimirovich
(1892- 1938)—Party
member
from 1914. From 1920, member
of the Collegium of the Peo-
ple’s Commissariat for Agricul-
ture, member of the Presidium
of
the
Supreme
Economic
Council—97
Kursky,
Dmitry Ivanovich (1874-
1932)—Party
member
from
1904. People’s Commissar for
Justice of the R.S.F.S.R. from
1918
to
1928.
From
1921,
member of the Presidium of
the All- Russia Central Execu-
tive Committee—144, 252, 293,
302, 319, 353, 361, 368, 380,
469- 71, 473, 491, 571
Kurzhner,
Boris
Abramovich
(b. 1896)—Party member from
1916. In 1921- 22, chairman of
the technical commission at
the Baltiisky Shipbuilding and
Mechanical Plant in Petro-
grad—402
Kushner, Boris Anisimovich (1888-
1937)—writer, Party member
from 1917. In 1920-21, Deputy
Chairman of the Electrotechni-
cal Department of the Supreme
Economic Council—307, 402
Kuskova,
Yekaterina Dmitrievna
(1869-1958)—bourgeois public
figure and publicist. Took part
in the co- operative movement.
In 1921, member of the All-
Russia Famine Relief Commit-
tee; together with some other
members of this organisation
tried to use it against the
Soviet government. In 1922 was
expelled
from
the
country
—106, 208- 09
Kuusinen,
Otto
Wilhelmovich
(1881- 1964)—prominent leader
of the Finnish and international
working-class movement, the
Communist
Party
and
the
Soviet state; a founding mem-
ber of the Communist Party of
Finland. From 1921 to 1939
member and Secretary of the
Comintern Executive Commit-
tee. From 1940, deputy of
the Supreme Soviet of the
U.S.S.R., Chairman of the Pre-
sidium of the Karelo-Finnish
S.S.R. Supreme Soviet. From
1941, member of the C.P.S.U.
C.C.; from 1957, member and
Secretary of the Presidium of
the C.P.S.U. Central Commit-
tee—185
Kuznetsov, Nikolai Grigoryevich—
railway
engineer,
author
(together with A. I. Odintsov)
of the world’s first works on
diesel engines with electrical
transmission and separate trac-
tion electrical engines—416
L
Lacis, Martyn Ivanovich (Sud-
rabs, Jan) (1888-1938)—Party
member from 1905. In 1921
member of the Collegium and
later Chairman of the Central
Salt Administration—315
Lalayants, Isaak Khristoforovich
(1870-1933)—active participant
in the Russian Social-Democrat-
ic movement; Bolshevik after
the Second R.S.D.L.P. Con-
gress in 1903; C.C. agent in