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NAME  INDEX

Marx,  Karl  (1818- 1883)—80,  81,

309,  527,  528,  529

Maximovsky,  Vladimir  Nikolaye-

vich  (1887- 1941)—Party  mem-

ber  from  1903.  After  the  Octo-

ber  Revolution,  Secretary  of

the  Moscow  Regional  Executive

Committee,  member  of  the

Collegium  of  the  People’s  Com-

missariat  for  Internal  Affairs.

In  1922,  member  of  the  Colle-

gium  of  the  People’s  Commis-

sariat  for  Education,  Deputy

People’s 

Commissar 

for

Education—585

Mayakovsky,  Vladimir  Vladimi-

rovich 

(1893- 1930)—Soviet

poet—138,  139,  327

Mdivani,  Polikarp  Gurgenovich

(Budu) 

(1877- 1937)—Party

member  from  1903.  In  1922,

member  of  the  Presidium  of  the

Georgian  C.P.(B.)  Central  Com-

mittee.  In  1928  was  expelled

from  the  Party  for  anti- Party

activity;  in  1931,  reinstated,

and  in  1936,  expelled  again—

582,  608

Meisner,  Valerian  Ivanovich  (1879-

1938)—fish  breeder;  from  July

1920,  Deputy  Chief  and  Chief

of  the  Central  Administration

of  the  Fishing  Industry—242,

243,  328

Mekhonoshin,  Konstantin  Alexan-

drovich 

(1889- 1938)—Party

member  from  1913.  In  1921,

member  of  the  Collegium  of  the

Central  Administration  of  the

Fishing  Industry;  later,  engaged

in  organising  general  mili-

tary  training;  worked  in  the

State  Planning  Commission  of

the  U.S.S.R.—203

Melnichansky,  Grigory  Natanovich

(1886- 1937)—Party 

mem-

ber  from  1902.  In  1918- 24

Chairman 

of 

the 

Moscow

Gubernia  Council  of  Trade

Unions  and  member  of  the

Presidium  of  the  All-Russia

Central  Trade  Union  Council—

284

Mendeleyev,  Dmitry 

Ivanovich

(1834-1907)—great 

Russian

scientist—575

Menshikov,  Yevgeny  Stepanovich

(1883-1926)—engineer 

and

technologist,  specialist  in  peat

extraction—464

Menzhinsky,  Vladimir  Rudolfovich

(1874-1934)—Party 

member

from  1902.  After  the  October

Revolution,  People’s  Commis-

sar  for  Finance,  then  Consul-

General 

of 

the 

R.S.F.S.R.

in  Berlin.  From  1919,  worked

in  the  All- Russia  Cheka—87,

202

Meshcheryakov,  Nikolai  Leonido-

vich  (1865-1942)—Party  mem-

ber  from  1901.  In  1920- 24,

Chairman  of  the  Editorial  Board

of  the  State  Publishers  and

member  of  the  Editorial  Board

of  Pravda  (1918- 22)—227- 28,

332

Meshcheryakova,  Anna  Ivanovna

(1866- 1948)—took  part  in  the

revolutionary  movement  from

the  1890s,  joined  the  Bolshe-

vik  Party  in  1917.  After  the

October  Revolution,  worked  in

the  People’s  Commissariat  for

Education, 

in 

the 

library

department  of  the  Chief  Com-

mittee  for  Political  Education

headed  the  library  of  the

Kremlin  Central  Club—399

Messing,  Stanislav  Adamovich

(1890-1946)—Party 

member

from  1908.  After  the  October

Revolution,  Secretary  of  the

Sokolniki  Executive  Committee

in  Moscow;  later,  worked  in  the

Cheka, 

the 

State 

Political

Administration  and  the  People’s

Commissariat  for  Foreign  Trade

—555

Mesyatsev,  P.  A.  (1889-1938)—

Party  member  from  1906.  In

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NAME  INDEX

1921- 24,  member  of  the  Col-

legium  of  the  People’s  Com-

missariat  for  Agriculture  of  the

R.S.F.S.R.  Later,  worked  in

the  co-operative  movement,  the

Agricultural 

Bank 

and 

the

State  Planning  Commission  of

the  U.S.S.R.—406

Metelev,  Alexander  Denisovich

(1893- 1937)—Party 

member

from  1912.  In  1921,  superinten-

dent  of  the  All-Russia  Central

Executive  Committee  houses.

Later,  engaged  in  administra-

tive  work—390

Mezhlauk,  I.  I.  (1891-1941)—Par-

ty  member  from  1918.  In  1921,

Chairman  of  Yugostal  (the

mining  and  metallurgical  trust)

Board—405

Michelson,  Vladimir  Alexandrovich

(1860- 1927)—physicist. 

From

1894  to  1927,  professor  of

physics  and  meteorology  in

the 

Petrovsko- Razumovskaya

Agricultural 

Academy 

(now

named  after  K.  A.  Timiryazev),

and  head  of  the  Observatory

of  the  U.S.S.R.  Academy  of

Sciences—47

Mikhailov,  Ivan  Konstantinovich

(b.  1881)—Party  member  from

1897.  In  1921- 22,  Chairman

of  the  Special  C.L.D.  Commis-

sion  on  examining  the  former

Urquhart  enterprises  in  the

Altai  and  the  Urals—486,  562,

565- 66,  573,  575

Mikhailov 

(Yelinson), 

L. 

M.

(1872- 1928)—Party 

member

from  1900.  In  1922,  plenipoten-

tiary  in  Norway;  in  1923-24,

representative  of  the  People’s

Commissariat  for  Foreign  Affairs

in  Turkestan,  member  of  the

Central  Asian  Bureau  of  the

R.C.P.(B.)  Central  Committee

—428

Mikhailov,  Vasily  Mikhailovich

(1894- 1937)—Party 

member

from  1915.  In  1921- 22,  Secre-

tary  of  the  R.C.P.(B.)  Central

Committee.  From  1922,  Sec-

retary  of  the  Moscow  Party

Committee,  Secretary  of  the

Zamoskvorechye  District  Com-

mittee  of  the  R.C.P.(B.),  Chair-

man  of  the  Moscow  Gubernia

Council  of  Trade  Unions—

344-45,  350,  352,  359,  363,  395

Mikhailovsky,  I.  O.  (b.  1876)—

engineer  and  technologist.  In

1919-28,  head  of  the  Patent

Department;  Deputy  Chairman,

then  Chairman  and  chief  expert

of  the  Inventions  Committee

under  the  Scientific  and  Techni-

cal  Department  of  the  Supreme

Economic  Council—129

Mikhalsky—see  Lapinsky,  P.  L.

Milyukov, 

Pavel 

Nikolayevich

(1859-1943)—leader 

of 

the

Cadet  Party,  historian  and

publicist, 

active 

whiteguard

émigré—480

Milyutin, 

Vladimir 

Pavlovich

(1884-1938)—Party 

member

from  1910.  From  1918  to  1921,

Deputy 

Chairman 

of 

the

Supreme  Economic  Council—

76,  131,   134

Minor, 

Lazar 

Solomonovich

(1855- 1942)  —  neuropathologist

—384

Minor,  Robert  (Ballister)  (1884-

1952)—American 

socialist,

journalist  and  artist.  In  1920,

joined  the  U.S.  Communist

Party  and  became  one  of  its

leaders,  editor  of  the  Party’s

Central  Organ  Daily  Worker—

402

Miroshnikov, 

Ivan 

Ivanovich

(1894-1939)—Party 

member

from  1917.  From  1921  to  1937,

Deputy  Business  Manager  of

the  Council  of  People’s  Com-

missars  and  the  Council  of

Labour 

and 

Defence—306,

473- 74

Mishell, 

B.—representative 

of

the 

American 

Allied 

Drug

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