Serafima Ilyinichna Hopner (russian: Серафима Ильинична Гопнер; 1880–1966) was a Bolshevik politician, a

Hero of Socialist Labor The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

(1960), and a Doctor of Historical Sciences (1934). Beginning in 1903, she was a member, and then a secretary of the Bolshevik party in

Yekaterinoslav Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

. In 1910-1917, she lived in emigration. From September 9 to October 23, 1918, she was the secretary of the

Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine ( uk, Комуністична Партія України ''Komunistychna Partiya Ukrayiny'', КПУ, ''KPU''; russian: Коммунистическая партия Украины) was the founding and ruling ...

. In 1928-1938 she worked for the

Comintern The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet Union, Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to ...

. Beginning in 1945, she was an employee of the

Institute of Marxism-Leninism An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

in Moscow.Andrzej Chojnowski,

Jan Jacek Bruski Jan Jacek Bruski (born 1969) is a Polish historian. His specialization is a history of 20th Century. In 1999 he gained his PhD (thesis: Centrum Państwowe Ukraińskiej Republiki Ludowej na wychodźstwie w latach 1919–1924. Monografia polityczna; ...

, ''Ukraina'', Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa 2006, p. 378,

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