Georgiy Pyatakov
| Yuriy Pyatakov Юрій П'ятаков |
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| Chairman of Provisional Government | |
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In office November 28, 1918 – January 29, 1919 |
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| President |
Hryhoriy Petrovsky (chairman of VUTsVK) |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Christian Rakovsky |
| 1st Secretary of Central Committee of the CP(b)U | |
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In office July 12, 1918 – September 9, 1918 |
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| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Serafima Hopner |
| 3rd Secretary of Central Committee of the CP(b)U | |
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In office March 6, 1919 – May 30, 1919 |
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| Preceded by | Emmanuel Kviring |
| Succeeded by | Stanislav Kosior |
| Personal details | |
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August 18, 1890 Cherkassy uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | January 30, 1937 (aged 46) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | RSDRP (since 1910) |
| Other political affiliations |
Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine (1918) |
| Spouse(s) | Yevgenia Bosch |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg University |
| Occupation | Politician/Statesman |
Georgy (Yury) Leonidovich Pyatakov (Russian: Георгий Леонидович Пятаков; August 6, 1890 – January 30, 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader during the Russian Revolution, and member of the Left Opposition.
Pyatakov (party pseudonyms: Kievsky, Lyalin, Petro, Yaponets) was born August 6, 1890 in the settlement of the Mariinsky sugar factory which was owned by his father, an ethnic Russian, Leonid Timofeyevich Pyatakov.
He started political activity as an anarchist while he was in secondary school, but joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1910. In 1912 he joined the Bolshevik faction. He was arrested and exiled to Siberia in 1912 with his partner, Evgenia Bosh, but they soon escaped and made their way to Switzerland where they joined the émigré revolutionary community. Pyatakov and Bosh remained together until she committed suicide in 1925 due to chronic poor health.
His opinion on some points of the theory and tactics of the revolutionary struggle contradicted that of the party Central Committee.
He was one of Lenin’s fiercest opponents on the national problem, with regard to the question of the course to be followed towards the socialist revolution, and on the issue of the Bolseviks' peace settlement with Germany.
Pyatakov lived in Ukraine from March 1917, heading the Kiev Committee of the RSDLP. He was repeatedly elected a member of the Central Committee. But he opposed the Ukrainian nationalists and stood for the transfer of power to the Soviets of Worker’s, Peasant’s and Soldier’s Deputies in Ukraine. He also headed the Kiev Military-Revolutionary Committee. He declared that the party had to throw out the idea of self-identification of every nation. He stood on the anti-chauvinistic international principles.
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