Arkady Osipovich Alsky

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Soviet communism 1892–1936 ✕ Executed

Left Opposition supporter who headed the Central Committee's assignment department and became deputy People's Commissar of Finance

Born Arkady Iosifovich Malsky in 1892 in Rozhishche, Volhynia Governorate, he was Jewish by nationality. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Poland in 1908, carried out propaganda among workers, went underground after his arrest in 1913 and joined the RSDLP (Bolsheviks) in 1917. In 1917–1919 he was deputy chairman of the Voronezh provincial executive committee and head of its finance department; in 1919 he was People's Commissar of Finance of the Lithuanian-Belorussian republic and then head of the Moscow Soviet's finance department. After the 9th Party Congress he became head of the Central Committee's Registration and Assignment Department, serving until October 1921, and from 1921 to 1927 he was a member of the collegium and deputy People's Commissar of Finance. A supporter of the Left Opposition, he was arrested in February 1936, shot in November and rehabilitated in 1988.

Also known as: Arkady Malsky