Lazar Shatskin

Lazar Abramovich Shatskin (Russian: Лазарь Абрамович Шацкин; born in Suwałki in 1902 – died 1937) was a Soviet and Communist International functionary and one of the founders of Komsomol.

He was born to a wealthy family of Polish Jewish origin.^[1] Joining the Bolshevik 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 Bolshevik Party), Moscow Union of Working Youth, Komsomol, and the Young Communist International.^[2]

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 Joseph Stalin, which Stalin described as "Right-Leftist bloc" (Право-левацкий блок).^[3] In 1935 he was arrested, expelled from the Party, and shot in 1937.

References

^ Boris Bazhanov, "Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary" ("Воспоминания бывшего секретаря Сталина"
^ "ОН СОЗДАЛ КОМСОМОЛ" Archived 2013-12-21 at the Wayback Machine ("He Creatied Komsomol")
^ Vadim Rogovin, "Power and Oppositions" (" Власть и оппозиции")

[1] Boris Bazhanov, "Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary" ("Воспоминания бывшего секретаря Сталина"

[2] "ОН СОЗДАЛ КОМСОМОЛ" Archived 2013-12-21 at the Wayback Machine ("He Creatied Komsomol")

[3] Vadim Rogovin, "Power and Oppositions" (" Власть и оппозиции")

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