Vladimir Aleksandrovich Karelin

Soviet Union state institutions Left critics 1891.2.23.–1938.9.22. ✕ Shot

Soviet coalition Commissar of State Property and a founder of the Left SR Party

Born in Smolensk, Karelin was a founder of the Left SR Party and a member of its Central Committee, and People's Commissar of State Property from December 1917 to March 1918. In June 1918 he protested that the expulsion of SRs and Mensheviks from the Central Executive Committee was illegal, and on 6 July, at Popov's headquarters, he heard Dzerzhinsky declare him under arrest. He was given three years in his absence. Arrested in 1937, he was brought as a witness to the Bukharin trial of 1938 and later shot in Kiev.