Bukharin-school 'Red Professor' and first editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda
Born to a schoolteacher's family in Ryazan, he joined the party in 1919. A student of the Institute of Red Professors and Bukharin's personal secretary, he was counted among the leading young theorists of the 'Bukharin school'. In 1925 he became the first editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, then worked in the Central Committee's agitprop department and the Comintern Executive and sat on the editorial board of Bolshevik. When the purge of the Right Opposition began he was sent to Samara in 1928 and was repeatedly expelled and readmitted. Arrested in September 1932 for spreading the Ryutin group's documents, he received five years in 1933 for leading a 'counter-revolutionary group of Rightists'. On 26 May 1937 the Military Collegium sentenced him to death and he was shot in Moscow the same day.
Activities and affiliations
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1919–1932
Soviet Communist Party and BolsheviksMain
Ideology and propaganda- Editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda1925
Career Timeline
- 1919.01.29Joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- 1924–1925Bukharin's personal secretary
- 1925.05–11.19First editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda
- 1928.05Transferred to the Middle Volga regional committee in Samara
- 1932.09.26Arrested in the Ryutin affair
- 1933.04.16Five years for leading a group of Rightists
- 1937.05.26Shot on the day of his death sentence