Mikhail Fyodorovich Vladimirsky (; – 2 April 1951) was a

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politician and

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revolutionary who was for a short period of time, the Chairman of the

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Biography

Mikhail Vladimirsky was born in 1874, as the son of Orthodox archpriest and

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-member Fyodor Vladimirsky.The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture
edited by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal; p. 260 He became involved with the revolutionary movement and

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in the early 1890s in

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Marxist circles. From 1895, as a student at the

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, he began to work as a propagandist and organizer of workers' circles. At the end of 1895 united around a Marxist circle led by, Vladimirsky, they renamed Workers' Union to the Moscow Workers' Union. In 1896, for his participation in the creation of the Moscow Workers' Union he was arrested and exiled to his home city. In 1898-1899 he was a member of the Moscow Committee of the

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. In the spring of 1899, during the student unrest, he was once again expelled from Moscow, and then left for Switzerland, where he continued his medical education. Vladimirsky joined Plekhanov's

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group and collaborated in the foreign organization ''

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''. After the

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(1903) he became a Bolshevik. He was in office as acting

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of the Central Executive Committee of the

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from 16 March 1919 to 30 March 1919 after the death of

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. He was also Deputy of Chairman of

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(the State Committee for Planning) of the USSR from 1926 to 1927 and People's Commissar of Public Healthcare of the RSFSR from 1930 to 1934. In those turbulent years, he was a supporter of Stalin's line against deviations by

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and

Nikolai Bukharin Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (; rus, Николай Иванович Бухарин, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ bʊˈxarʲɪn; – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A prominent Bolshevik ...

. In 1927, Vladimirsky became chairman of the Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party, a position he kept until his death. At time of his death, he was also a deputy of the

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. Vladimirsky died on 2 April 1951 at

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aged 77, and was given a state funeral. His ashes were buried at the

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