People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Government and administration 1 Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1 Left Opposition 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1 Soviet Union state institutions 1

All 5 affiliations

Russia

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1 ↳ Left Opposition 1 Soviet Union state institutions 1

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1
Position(set)
Any Imperial establishment and White movement 2 Counter-revolutionary forces 30 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Dissident 1 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 22 Fascists and Nazis 18 Western Marxist theorists 5 Marxism and communism 44 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Conservatism and Christian democracy 7 Monarchy and royalism 3
Citizenship
Any Soviet Union 1
Background(set)
Any Russia 30 Poland 4 Ukraine 3 France 2 Georgia 2 Latvia 2 Armenia 1 Bulgaria 1 China 1 Germany 1 Hungary 1 Moldova 1 Netherlands 1 Spain 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 United Kingdom 1 United States 1
Era
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 1
Left critics of Bolshevism Background: Germany Clear all

Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch

Евгения Богдановна Бош
Soviet Ukraine state institutions Left critics of Bolshevism Soviet Union Germany 1879–1925 ✕ Suicide

First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness

As German troops advanced on Kyiv, Bosch refused to abandon the city without a fight. Her comrades had to forcibly evacuate her.

A Bolshevik of German settler background, she became the first woman to head a Soviet government as acting leader of Ukraine's People's Secretariat in 1917. In Swiss exile she opposed Lenin on the national question; later she signed the Left Opposition's Declaration of 46. She died in 1925 after years of incurable illness.

Career timeline
  • 1901Joined RSDLP; active in Bolshevik faction after the 1903 split
  • 1907–1911Underground revolutionary work in Kyiv; secretary of the Kyiv Committee
  • 1912–1914Arrested, exiled to Siberia, escaped via Japan and the US to Switzerland
  • 1914–1917Swiss exile; opposed Lenin on the national question in the 'Baugy group'
  • 1917.04–07Chair of South-Western Regional Party Committee; VI Party Congress delegate
  • 1917.12–1918.03Acting head, People's Secretariat of Ukraine; People's Secretary of Internal Affairs
  • 1918–1919Chair of Penza Party Committee; political commissar on Caspian-Caucasus Front
  • 1923–1924Joined the Left Opposition; signed the Declaration of 46