People of the Revolution and the USSR

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Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 26 Soviet Union state institutions 20 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 10 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 4 Georgia state institutions 3 Russian Empire state institutions 1 Russian White movement 1 Comintern 1

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Georgia

Georgia state institutions 3

International organizations

Comintern 1

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 1 Russian White movement 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 4 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 10

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 26 Soviet Union state institutions 20
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Any Left critics of Bolshevism 1
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Any Soviet Union 1
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Any Russia 8 Germany 3 Bulgaria 2 France 2 Ukraine 2 Belarus 1 China 1 Finland 1 Georgia 1 India 1 Japan 1 Latvia 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Palestine 1 Poland 1 Switzerland 1
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People of the Soviet Union

People of the Stalin era1929–1953 1
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Vissarion Vissarionovich Lominadze

Виссарион Виссарионович Ломинадзе
Comintern Left critics of Bolshevism Soviet Union Georgia 1897–1935 ✕ Suicide

Comintern architect of the Canton uprising who led the first party-apparatus challenge to Stalin's collectivization

At the 16th Party Congress in 1930, he took the podium and openly assailed Stalin's forced collectivization. When he finished, the hall fell silent — his was one of the few speeches not greeted by applause.

A Georgian Bolshevik who left a deep mark on the Chinese revolution as a Comintern operative. In 1927 he chaired the August 7 Emergency Conference, engineered the removal of Chen Duxiu, elevated Mao Zedong to the Politburo, and approved the Canton uprising. He also advanced the theory that China's 'Asiatic mode of production' made it possible to bypass the capitalist stage. In 1930 he and Syrtsov formed the first party-apparatus opposition to Stalin's forced collectivization; demoted and marginalized, he shot himself in 1935 under threat of arrest.

Career timeline
  • 1917Worked in Petrograd military organization; secretary of Kutaisi party committee
  • 1918–1920Led Tbilisi and Baku committees; Presidium member, CP of Azerbaijan
  • 1921–1922Fought in the Kronstadt suppression; party organizer for Vyborg district, Petrograd
  • 1922–1924First Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia
  • 1925–1929Secretary of KIM (Young Communist International); Comintern rep to China — led Aug. 7 Emergency Conference and approved Canton uprising
  • 1930First Secretary of Transcaucasian Kraikom; formed Syrtsov-Lominadze bloc — expelled from CC
  • 1933–1935Secretary of Magnitogorsk city party committee