Vladimir Nevsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Не́вский; 2 (14) May 1876, Rostov on Don – 26 May 1937)[1] was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik functionary, Soviet statesman and historian.

He was born Feodosii Ivanovich Krivobokov to a family of Old Believers[1] and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898, shortly after the party was founded.[2] He was a graduate of the University of Kharkov.[3] He became a full-time revolutionary in 1905 and was appointed Commissar of Communication in the first Soviet government.[2]

Nevsky was an active participant of the October Revolution. He was one of the founders and members of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee.

Nevsky was the founding rector of the Sverdlov Communist University, 1919-21.

He was arrested in February 20th, 1935 being accused of leading an anti-Party group and was sentenced to five years in a labour camp.

On May 25th, 1937, by the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union he was sentenced to be shot and the sentence was carried out the next day. He never renounced his Bolshevik views and gave lectures for inmates on the history of the party and the October Revolution.

Vladimir Nevsky was rehabilitated in 1955.[4]

References
  1. "Nevsky, Vladimir Ivanovich / Невский, Владимир Иванович - CENDARI Archival Directory". archives.cendari.dariah.eu. Cendari. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  2. Barber, John (1981). Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928-1932. Springer. ISBN 9781349052394. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  3. Read, Christopher (1990). Culture and Power in Revolutionary Russia. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-11003-2.
  4. "НЕВСКИЙ Владимир Иванович — Большой энциклопедический словарь". Gufo.me (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-10-05.
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