Semyon Pafnutyevich Sereda (; 1 February 1871 – 21 May 1933) was a Russian

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...

revolutionary and

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politician. He was the son of a railway employee. From 1896 to 1917 he worked as a statistician. Sereda joined the Bolshevik wing of the

Russian Social Democratic Labor Party The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDWP) or the Russian Social Democratic Party (RSDP), was a socialist political party founded in 1898 in Minsk, Russian Empire. The ...

in 1903. In 1917, he became a member of the

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''gubkom'', and from 1 March 1918 until 1 December 1921 served as the Peoples's Commissar for Agriculture. In this capacity he led the grain requisition and punitive operations against peasants in

Yeletsky Uyezd Yeletsky Uyezd (''Еле́цкий уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Oryol Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the eastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Yelets. Demographics At the time of t ...

Oryol Governorate Oryol Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1928. Its seat was in the city of Oryol. Administrative division Oryol Governorate consisted of t ...

in 1918. Sereda was one of the main initiators of the creation of state farms and industrial communities. From January 1920 he was a member of the Presidium of

Supreme Soviet of the National Economy Supreme Soviet of the National Economy, Superior Soviet of the People's Economy, (Высший совет народного хозяйства, ВСНХ, ''Vysshiy sovet narodnogo khozyaystva'', VSNKh) was the superior state institution for mana ...

and

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. In 1927 he became Deputy Governor of the Central Statistical Office, USSR.

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* 1871 births 1933 deaths Old Bolsheviks Statisticians from the Russian Empire Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union Russian Constituent Assembly members Revolutionaries of the Russian Revolution {{USSR-politician-stub