779
NAME INDEX
Russia. At the end of 1913,
exiled
for
life
to
Eastern
Siberia; withdrew from politics
until
1922.
From
1922,
worked in the Chief Committee
for Political Education of the
R.S.F.S.R. People’s Commis-
sariat for Education—289, 348,
431, 466
Lapinsky,
Pavel
Ludvigovich
(Levinson,
Y.,
Mikhalsky)
(1879-1937)—Polish
Commu-
nist, economist and publicist
member of the R.C.P.(B.) from
1919. From 1920 to 1928, offi-
cial of the Soviet embassy in
Germany—258, 282, 355, 479
Larin,
Y .
(
Lourie,
Mikhail
Alexandrovich)
(1882-1932)—
Social-Democrat
Menshevik;
in August 1917, joined the Bol-
shevik Party. After the October
Revolution worked in Soviet
government
and
economic
bodies. In 1920-22, Deputy
Chairman of the Supreme Coun-
cil for Transportation, mem-
ber of the State Planning Com-
mission and member of its
Presidium—75, 186, 187, 199,
441, 445, 466
Larkin, James (1878-1947)—active
member of the Irish working-
class
movement.
In
1914-
23, lived in the United States
where he was persecuted for
his revolutionary activity. On
his return to Ireland, organ-
ised
the
Left-wing
Irish
Workers’ Union, which for a
time was in the Red Interna-
tional of Trade Unions—368
Lavrentyeva—274
Lavrik—73
Lazarev, Pyotr Petrovich (1878-
1942)—physicist,
biophysicist
and geophysicist; academician
from 1917. In 1912- 25, pro-
fessor of the Moscow Higher
Technical College; in 1920-31,
Director of the State Biophys-
ical Institute, which was set up
on his initiative—389, 405, 546
Lazzari,
Constantino (1857-1927)
—prominent figure in the Italian
working- class
movement;
a
founder of the Italian Socialist
Party, member of its Central
Committee. Took part in the
work of the Second and Third
Congresses of the Communist
International—377, 600
Lengnik, Friedrich (1873-1936)—
Party
member
from
1898,
member of the St. Petersburg
League of Struggle for the Eman-
cipation of the Working Class;
in the early 1900s, in Iskra.
Participant
in
the
1905- 07
revolution; engaged in Party
work in the south of Russia,
in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
After the October Revolution,
worked in the People’s Com-
missariat for Education, the
Supreme Economic Council, the
People’s
Commissariat
for
Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspec-
tion and in the GOELRO Com-
mission. From 1921, member of
the Collegium of the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Trade
—347
Lepeshinskaya, Natalya Stepa-
novna (1890-1923)—worked in
Lenin’s Secretariat from 1918 to
1923—134, 155, 286, 490, 505
554, 558, 559
Levi,
Paul (1883- 1930)—German
Social-Democrat. Elected mem-
ber of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of Ger-
many at its Inaugural Congress.
In February 1921, was expelled
from the Party for breach of
Party discipline; subsequently
returned
to
the
Social-
Democratic Party—124, 186,
231- 32
Levin,
Lev Grigoryevich (1870-
1938)—therapeutist; in 1896-
97, worked in Berlin and Paris
780
NAME INDEX
clinics, from 1897, in Russia.
From April 1920, head of the
therapeutic department of the
Kremlin Hospital—216, 474
Lezhava,
Andrei
Matveyevich
(1870- 1937)—Party
member
from 1904. After the October
Revolution, held responsible
government and economic posts.
In 1918-20, Chairman of Cen-
trosoyuz; from 1920 to 1925
Deputy People’s Commissar for
Foreign Trade—117, 131, 136,
170, 177, 181, 193, 206, 208,
255, 401, 403, 408, 410, 420,
428, 436- 38, 441, 448, 451,
496- 97, 514, 515, 579
Lezhnev,
Isai Grigoryevich (1891-
1955)—journalist,
Bolshevik
from 1906. In 1918- 21, editor
of a number of magazines, head
of the information department
of Izvestia VTsIK. In early
1922, founded and edited the
magazine
Novaya
Rossiya
published in Petrograd and then
in Moscow until May 1926—
555
Lisitsyn,
Pyotr Ivanovich (1877-
1948)—selectionist, worked at
the Shatilov State Experimen-
tal Selection Station in Orel
Region from 1908 to 1929—
584
Litkens,
Y.
A.
(1888-1922)—
member of the R.S.D.L.P. from
1904, of the R.C.P.(B.) from
1919. In 1920, deputy head
of the Chief Committee for
Political Education; from 1921,
Deputy People’s Commissar for
Education of the R.S.F.S.R.—
57, 70, 77, 83, 86, 145, 284,
296, 401, 408, 412, 462, 475
Litvinov,
Maxim
Maximovich
(1876-1951)—Party
member
from 1898. After the October
Revolution, Soviet diplomat;
in
1921,
Deputy
People’s
Commissar for Foreign Affairs—
331, 355, 367, 379, 409, 410,
428, 435, 441, 445, 447, 485,
530, 537, 541, 553
Lloyd George, David (1863- 1945)
—British statesman, leader of
the Liberal Party. From 1916
to 1922, Prime Minister—356,
426, 469, 532-33, 537, 547
Lobachev, Ivan Stepanovich (1879-
1933)—Party
member
from
1917. From 1920, member of
the Collegium of the People’s
Commissariat for Food of the
R.S.F.S.R.;
from
February
1922, People’s Commissar for
Food in the Ukraine—219
Lomonosov,
Yuri Vladimirovich
(b. 1876)—railway expert, pro-
fessor. In 1920-21, headed a
mission supervising the fulfil-
ment of orders for locomotives
railway and other technical
equipment in Sweden and Ger-
many—163,
379,
451,
454,
455- 56, 518, 536
Lomov,
A. (
Oppokov,
Georgi Ippo-
litovich)
(1888-1938)—Party
member from 1903. People’s
Commissar for Justice from
the Second All-Russia Congress
of Soviets. Member of the Pre-
sidium and Deputy Chairman
of the Supreme Economic Coun-
cil, Deputy Chairman of the
State Planning Commission of
the U.S.S.R.—107, 117
Lozovsky
(Dridzo),
Solomon
Abramovich (1878-1952)—Party
member from 1901. In 1920,
Chairman
of
the
Moscow
Gubernia Trade Union Council.
From 1921 to 1937, General
Secretary of the Red Interna-
tional of Trade Unions; later,
diplomat—218, 232, 598-99
Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilyevich
(1875-1933)—took part in the
Social- Democratic
movement
from the early 1890s. After
the October Revolution and
up to 1929, People’s Commis-
sar
for
Education
of
the