Viktor Pavlovich Nogin
Виктор Павлович Ногин
First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square
「A socialist government must be formed from all Soviet parties… the only other path is to preserve a purely Bolshevik government by means of political terror.」 — Resignation statement, 4 November 1917
A Bolshevik from the Iskra agent network. As Moscow Soviet chairman in 1917 he led the October uprising and became the first People's Commissar for Trade and Industry, but resigned demanding a multi-party socialist coalition. Later returned to economic administration; buried on Red Square.
Career timeline
- 1898Joined St. Petersburg Social-Democratic group 'Workers' Banner'
- 1900–1901Iskra agent — operated in London and Munich; arrested in St. Petersburg
- 1907Elected to CC at the 5th (London) RSDLP Congress; organized trade unions in Baku and Moscow
- 1912–1914Exiled to Verkhoyansk; wrote 'At the Pole of Cold'
- 1917.9–11First Bolshevik chairman of the Moscow Soviet; led the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee in October
- 1917.11First People's Commissar for Trade and Industry; resigned demanding a multi-party coalition
- 1918–1924Deputy People's Commissar of Labour of the RSFSR; textile industry administration
- 1921–1924Chairman of the Central Revision Commission of the RCP(b)