People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)
Any Political and party leadership 7 Government and administration 7 Legislature and state representation 1 Military command 3 Security, intelligence and policing 4 Diplomacy and international organization 3 Ideology and propaganda 3 Social movements and organizing 4 Scholarship and theory 2 Science and technology 1 Religion 1 Law and justice 1
Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1 Soviet Unionstate 1

All 3 affiliations

Russia

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1 Soviet Unionstate 1
Position
Any Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship
Any Soviet Union 1
Background(set)
Any Russia 31 Germany 4 Poland 3 Estonia 2 Hungary 2 Latvia 2 Ukraine 2 Benin 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 Finland 1 Greece 1 Italy 1 Korea 1 Lithuania 1 Moldova 1 United States 1
Era
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 1
Law and justice Background: Lithuania Clear all

Aron Aleksandrovich Solts

Арон Александрович Сольц
Soviet Union Soviet communism Soviet Union Lithuania 1872–1945 ○ Died

The Bolshevik elder called 'conscience of the party': jurist who confronted the Prosecutor General during the Great Terror

"I have known Trifonov for thirty years as a real Bolshevik — and you I know as a Menshevik!" — to Vyshinsky, 1938, defending an arrested comrade.

Bolshevik jurist (RSDLP from 1898). As architect of the party ethics system in the Central Control Commission, he was called 'the conscience of the party.' In 1937 he publicly denounced Vyshinsky for fabricating cases and was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital, where he died.

Career timeline
  • 1898Joined the RSDLP
  • 1903–1905Arrested in Ekaterinoslav for an underground press; 6-year sentence, released early in 1905
  • 1905–1917Exile in Tyumen, Turinsk and Narym; published the first illegal newspaper Tyumensky Rabochy
  • 1917Moscow party committee; editorial board of Sotsial-Demokrat and Pravda
  • 1920–1934Member and Presidium member (1923–1934) of the Central Control Commission; built party ethics and discipline
  • 1921–1934Judge of the RSFSR and USSR Supreme Courts; head of Rabkrin legal department
  • 1935–1938.02Deputy Prosecutor of the USSR under Vyshinsky; Chairman of the Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court
  • 1938.02–1945Forcibly committed to a psychiatric clinic after denouncing Vyshinsky; later archivist at the Museum of Peoples