Lazar Abramovich Shatskin (Russian: Лазарь Абрамович Шацкин; born in

Suwałki Suwałki (; ; or סוּוואַלק) is a city in northeastern Poland with a population of 69,206 (2021). It is the capital of Suwałki County and one of the most important centers of commerce in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. A relatively young ci ...

in 1902 – died 1937) was a

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and

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functionary and one of the founders of

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it w ...

. He was born to a wealthy family of

Polish Jewish The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jews, Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the long pe ...

origin. Joining the

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party in May 1917, he took part in establishment a number of youth organizations: МК РКСМ (Russian Young Communist League by the Moscow Committee of

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), Moscow Union of Working Youth, Komsomol, and the

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. First Secretary of the YCI (1919–1921), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Young Communist League (ЦК РКСМ, 1921–1922). In 1930 he was a member of a group in opposition to

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, which Stalin described as " Right-Leftist bloc" (Право-левацкий блок).

Vadim Rogovin Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin (; 10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Russian Marxist (Trotskyist) historian and sociologist, Ph.D. in philosophy, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the auth ...

, "Power and Oppositions" (" Власть и оппозиции") In 1935 he was arrested, expelled from the Party, and shot in 1937.

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