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Boris Davidovich Kamkov

Борис Давидович Камков
Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries Left critics of Bolshevism Soviet Union Moldova 1885–1938 ✕ Executed

Co-founder and chief theoretician of the Left SR Party: from coalition with the Bolsheviks to the July 1918 uprising

"We, as political actors, at a moment when an event of immense historical significance is taking place, could least of all occupy ourselves with moral characterization. It was clear to us that our place was with the revolution." — First PLSR Congress, November 1917

Co-founder and chief theoretician of the Left SR Party. Entered coalition with the Bolsheviks, then led the July 1918 uprising against the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. After its suppression he endured repeated exile and was executed in 1938.

Career timeline
  • 1904Joined SR combat organization; arrested and exiled to Turukhansk
  • 1907Escaped abroad, émigré activity in Geneva and Paris; graduated Heidelberg law faculty (1911)
  • 1915Attended Zimmerwald Conference; active as anti-war internationalist
  • 1917.04–11Returned to Russia, co-founded PLSR; VTsIK Presidium member, head of International Department
  • 1917.11Elected to Constituent Assembly (Petrograd capital district, SR list no. 9)
  • 1918.04Elected Chairman of the PLSR Central Committee Presidium
  • 1918.07Led opposition to Brest-Litovsk and the July uprising; went underground after suppression
  • 1920–1937Repeated arrests and exile (Chelyabinsk, Tver, Voronezh, Arkhangelsk); worked as an economist
  • 1938Sentenced to death by VKVS; executed 29 August at Kommunarka; posthumously rehabilitated 1992